“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
Wendy Wasserstein
“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”
Carol Gilligan
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
Camille Paglia
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.”
Ben Stein