There were few things I liked to do more as a girl growing up in the 1970s than race boys on the wide, quiet street near my home, toss a ball back and forth with my sister, and zig-zag around town on roller-skates. A beneficiary of Title IX, I played softball and tennis in high school and ran competitively through college and beyond. Sports defined my childhood and toughened me up. But true empowerment is defined by choice.