
Renée Richards with Julie Kliegman
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Why Shouldn't I Have Everything I Want?
"I felt so comfortable as Renee that I thought once again. Why shouldn't I have everything I want?" she wrote in her book. "It's definitely a stance she backtracks on closer to the present day, but I think it's really notable that she felt so bold and so entitled to the things that everyone else has," he said. She finally feels comfortable, right? That when you have that feeling of like, 'Why shouldn't I be able to do what I want?' Richards' return to tennis is an act of self-discovery for her after years away from competitive sport.
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