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Updated On: 12 February, 2010 01:43 PM IST | | Martina Navratilova
Once I became a regular on the tennis circuit, I saw a lot of women doing what they wanted to do
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Once I became a regular on the tennis circuit, I saw a lot of women doing what they wanted to do. I saw them making business decisions for themselves, tennis decisions, and smaller decisions about how they wanted to live, how they wanted to eat and dress, what movies they wanted to see. They were professionals, their lives not always defined by men.
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Martinau00a0with her former girlfriend, Judy Nelson |
I guess I'd known that for a long time, going back to childhood when I had urges to be with some of the teachers, wanted to know everything about them, their secrets, the way they did things. I had much less curiousity about men.
As I grew up through my teens, I never had any relationships with a woman. Yet, I never thought there was anything strange about being gay.u00a0u00a0u00a0
Looking back to when I was 16 or 17,u00a0 I can see I had some crushes on some women players and didn't really know it. I just liked being with them.u00a0
When it finally happened, it was with somebody older than me, a woman I met in the States and it seemed so natural. I was pretty much a rookie with women, and I'm shy anyway, so it took forever for me to get the hints she was throwing at me.
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