" Unlike other players – who arrived at the sport because their class and place in society afforded them the possibility – the Williamses fought their way in. Any victory from that point forward would not be out of luck, or proximity to privilege, or pedigree. It would be through sheer strength, work, and will. "

― Anne Helen Petersen , Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman