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Wellesley Quotes By Rebecca Traister

Nora Ephron explained in a 1996 commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College, about her own graduating class of 1962: "We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect." Both — Rebecca Traister

Wellesley Quotes By Nora Ephron

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy. — Nora Ephron

Wellesley Quotes By Marni Bates

That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer. — Marni Bates

Wellesley Quotes By George H. W. Bush

And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House." — George H. W. Bush

Wellesley Quotes By W.B.Yeats

My anthology continues to sell & the critics get more & more angry. When I excluded Wilfred Owen, whom I consider unworthy of the poets' corner of a country newspaper, I did not know I was excluding a revered sandwich-board Man of the revolution & that some body has put his worst & most famous poem in a glass-case in the British Museum
however if I had known it I would have excluded him just the same. He is all blood, dirt & sucked sugar stick (look at the selection in Faber's Anthology
he calls poets 'bards,' a girl a 'maid,' & talks about 'Titanic wars'). There is every excuse for him but none for those who like him ... (from a letter of December 26, 1936, in Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, p. 124). — W.B.Yeats

Wellesley Quotes By Sheryl Sandberg

Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called "Feeling Like a Fraud."1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. — Sheryl Sandberg

Wellesley Quotes By Marni Bates

Everyone would wonder, 'What's he doing with her?' And then you'd say, 'Hmm, good question,' and you'd dump me. That wouldn't be nice. — Marni Bates

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Elisabeth Shue

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself. — Elisabeth Shue

Wellesley Quotes By Marni Bates

Too late to point out that he would be better off with someone smart and sweet and - okay - awkward than with Chelsea. Someone who could make him laugh. Someone like, oh, I dunno, me! — Marni Bates

Wellesley Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Yet to complain of the world's unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes changed its direction. Unfairness existed, it always had and it always would, and the miracle, to Sharpe's eyes, was that some men like Hill and Wellesley, though they had become wealthy and privileged through unfair advantages, were nevertheless superb at what they did. — Bernard Cornwell

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Hillary Rodham Clinton

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands ... searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living ... for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences ... Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.
-Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969 — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Wellesley Quotes By Bill Dedman

The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away. — Bill Dedman

Wellesley Quotes By Nora Ephron

We have a game we play when we're waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy. — Nora Ephron

Wellesley Quotes By Madeleine Albright

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs. — Madeleine Albright

Wellesley Quotes By Rebecca Traister

By 1996 Nora Ephron was telling a graduating class at Wellesley, Don't underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back. ... Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. — Rebecca Traister

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Chris Pourteau

After the Battle of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington - who managed to defeat Napoleon by the skin of his teeth - surveyed the blood-soaked cornfields of Belgium and wrote in a letter, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won. — Chris Pourteau

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Charlotte Bronte

An extraordinary dream by lord charles wellesley. (Charlotte Bronte)
'In this slumber i thought i was walking on the banks of a river ... Which murmered over small pebbles at the bottom, gleaming like crystals through the silver stream' 'and the green buds of the wild rose trees around were unopened' 'and a mild warmth were shed from the sun ... Then at its height in the blue sky — Charlotte Bronte

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Dennis Lehane

You hear it most when politicians who live in places like Hyannis Port and Beacon Hill and Wellesley make decisions that affect people who live in Dorchester and Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, and then step back and say there isn't a war going on. There is a war going on. It's happening in playgrounds, not health clubs. It's fought on cement, not lawns. It's fought with pipes and bottles, and lately, automatic weapons. And as long as it doesn't push through the heavy oak doors where they fight with prep school educations and filibusters and two-martini lunches, it will never actually exist. — Dennis Lehane

Wellesley Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly. — Bernard Cornwell

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

The only thing I am afraid of is fear. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Rebecca Traister

Yesterday, a beautiful day ... I was talking to [an older] woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid. Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it. Not now. HILLARY RODHAM, Wellesley commencement speech, 1969 — Rebecca Traister

Wellesley Quotes By Hillary Clinton

Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you. — Hillary Clinton

Wellesley Quotes By Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Alyson Richman

I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created? — Alyson Richman

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

When my journal appears, many statues must come down. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Rush Limbaugh

Hillary Clinton lived at Wellesley and Yale. Her circle of friends was that Ivy League bunch, and they were all being trained for lives in government. They were all being trained for lives of government: CIA, State Department. — Rush Limbaugh

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Paul Engle

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places. — Paul Engle

Wellesley Quotes By Nora Ephron

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996] — Nora Ephron

Wellesley Quotes By Nora Ephron

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument. — Nora Ephron

Wellesley Quotes By David McCullough Jr.

Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer. — David McCullough Jr.

Wellesley Quotes By Rush Limbaugh

The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!" — Rush Limbaugh

Wellesley Quotes By Aya Ling

We are striving to change things, lass. But changes don't occur overnight." - Mr. WellesleyAya Ling

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

Napoleon built his campaigns of iron and when one piece broke the whole structure collapsed. I made my campaigns using rope, and if a piece broke I tied a knot — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

Habit is ten times nature. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Lynn Povich

At Newsweek only girls with college degrees
and we were called "girls" then
were hired to sort and deliver the mail, humbly pushing our carts from door to door in our ladylike frocks and proper high-heeled shoes. If we could manage that, we graduated to "clippers," another female ghetto. Dressed in drab khaki smocks so that ink wouldn't smudge our clothes, we sat at the clip desk, marked up newspapers, tore out releveant articles with razor-edged "rip sticks," and routed the clips to the appropriate departments. "Being a clipper was a horrible job," said writer and director Nora Ephron, who got a job at Newsweek after she graduated from Wellesley in 1962, "and to make matters worse, I was good at it. — Lynn Povich

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Arthur Wellesley

It had been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. (Waterloo 18 June 1815)

'I hope to God,' he said one day,'that I have fought my last battle.It is a bad thing to be always fighting.While in the thick of it,I am much too occupied to feel anything;but it is wretched just after.It is quite impossible to think of glory.Both mind and feeling are exhausted.I am wretched even at the moment of victory,and I always say that next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.Not only do you lose those dear friends with whom you have been living,but you are forced to leave the wounded behind you.To be sure one tries to do the best for them,but how little that is!At such moments every feeling in your breast is deadened.I am now just beginning to retain my natural spirits,but I never wish for any more fighting. — Arthur Wellesley

Wellesley Quotes By Marni Bates

Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty - stupid me for going along with it. — Marni Bates

Wellesley Quotes By Lisa Kleypas

I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education. — Lisa Kleypas

Wellesley Quotes By Bill Dedman

Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.' — Bill Dedman

Wellesley Quotes By Marina Keegan

Most firms are looking for people who will stay up until three A.M. seven nights a week making slides for a partner who goes home to Wellesley for dinner every night at five P.M. - and who will do so thinking that they're 'winning.' Look at it this way: most firms assume that you'll leave for law school or business school within three years, and they invest in your training accordingly. Quality mentoring when you're young is worth whatever you pay for it. Sometimes that means less money, sometimes that means less of a life beyond work. But quality mentoring is not going to be delivered by someone who is twenty-six, and just one tidal cycle ahead of you. — Marina Keegan

Wellesley Quotes By Elisabeth Shue

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. — Elisabeth Shue