Friday, November 7, 2014

Women’s College Quote: One great advantage of a women's college is that whatever there is to be done, we women do.


Madeleine L’Engle is referenced in this article, “25 Famous Women on Their College Lives.”

Madeleine L’Engle, Smith 1941
"One great advantage of a women's college is that whatever there is to be done, we women do. If there is a magazine to be started, we start it. If there is an officer to be elected, one of us will be elected. I left college and went to New York to earn my living with the assurance that all doors were of course open to me, and that's a good attitude to have. If you expect doors to be open, they're likely to be open. If you expect them to be closed, they're likely to slam in your face." —Wellesley Commencement, 1991 


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