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We dream, we cope, and we endure. And we keep on learning.

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Lynn Sherr

Wellesley College Commencement 2010, 2010

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Lynn Sherr, the pioneering broadcast journalist and Wellesley class of 1963, reflected on the arc of women's lives as she addressed the class of 2010. She described her own journey through the glory years of network journalism, breaking barriers as one of the first women in the business, surviving cancer, and losing her husband. She told the graduates that every woman — every person — in that audience had a similar story or would have one, because life demands resilience. But her tone wasn't one of resignation; it was one of fierce optimism. Dreaming, coping, and enduring aren't just survival — they're the engine of a life that keeps growing, right down to the joy of learning Super Mario from her grandchildren.

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