"1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech" by Anna Quindlen speech

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"1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech" by Anna Quindlen speech “1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech” delivered by Anna Quindlen Background Anna Quindlen is an author, journalist, and opinion columnist. She originally delivered this speech as the commencement address to the class of 1999 at Mount Holyoke College. 1 Note: Thanks to reader Harvey Freedenberg, who originally told me about this speech. Speech Transcript I look at all of you today and I cannot help but see myself twenty-five years ago, at my own Barnard commencement. I sometimes seem, in my mind, to have as much in

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