We talked about hitting the ball hard. We got our bats going in that second game. It was extremely important to get at least one. After the first game, they were extremely disappointed. But we took a five-minute break and pulled our heads back up.

She's a good player. She pitched great tonight, and she showed she can play shortstop, too. She did a good job.

The first game, the errors killed us. We had four errors that game and our pitcher, I believe, pitched just a one-hitter.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.