Congratulations graduates! Wise words for lifelong learners.
Graduates of the class of <covers mouth and mumbles> these three commencement speeches still apply.
Put down the backpack.
I have sent Anna Quindlen’s 1999 Mount Holyoke commencement address to just about every woman I’ve worked with. Her words are still relevant, perhaps more so, today.
Quindlen illuminates the burden of societal and self-imposed expectations with which I and every woman I know have struggled to meet day after day after day. A few exc…
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