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Serena Williams Quotes

“I've got to be honest, I was never a tennis fan, But the moment that Venus and Serena appeared on the court with those rackets in their hands... Now you understand!”

Honest Understand Venus Racket Fan Serena Williams Tennis Court

Author:Charmaine J Forde

“Serena’s body isn’t built to emulate the look of the model in an Ann Taylor shift dress. It’s built – through an exacting and grueling regimen – to decimate her opponents. And his suggestion that the body, too, is beautiful and sexy – in spite of, or even because of, its threat to the norms of white femininity – will continue to be threatening until the standards of beauty are decentered from those of the white upper class.”

Body Beauty Body Image Serena Williams

Book:Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Source: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

“The Williams sisters had something else: each other, and their absolute dominance.”

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Author:Anne Helen Petersen

“Put differently, the rhetoric of Williams’ different body isn’t just sexist – it’s profoundly racist.”

Racism Tennis Sexism Serena Williams

Book:Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Source: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman