BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD. Keep on reading. And remember when you hear yourself saying you don't have time anymore to read — then you're getting old. That means they got to you, after all.
speech graduation courage
Susan Sontag
Wellesley College Commencement 1983, 1983
The most useful suggestion I can make is that you go on being students for the rest of your lives. Don't move to a mental slum.
speech graduation curiosity
Susan Sontag
Wellesley College Commencement 1983, 1983
This attitude of opposition is not justified as a strategy, as a means to an end, a way of changing the world. It is, rather, the best way of being in the world.
speech graduation independence
Susan Sontag
Wellesley College Commencement 1983, 1983