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Quotes from Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front — MJ Hegar

born 1976

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And to everyone who ever tried to convince me that I couldn't win, thank you for inspiring me to prove you wrong. Na-na na-na boo-boo.

Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front (2017)

But for some reason, it was never the strong, fit guys who were threatened enough by me to infer I was physically inferior. It was always the guys who were at the bottom rung of the physical fitness ladder. It was as if, like any bully, they were so insecure that they had to seek out someone they thought was weaker than they were and kick them around.

Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: MJ Hegar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.