Vassar Quotes & Sayings

Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women. — M. Carey Thomas

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey. — Meryl Streep

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys. — Ellen Swallow Richards

Giving glory is a natural human response to witnessing greatness, which is why our world is infatuated with celebrities. We are addicted to greatness. And when we see it, we ascribe worth and value to it. Our — J.R. Vassar

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar. — Jack Paar

My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword - that should tell you all you need to know. — Anthony Bourdain

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar. — William F. Buckley Jr.