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Robert K. Durkee: I can tell you that as an undergraduate, I could never have imagined speaking from this
Robert K. Durkee: stage, much less doing so in front of hundreds of Princeton women.
[Laughter, clapping]
Shirley M. Tilghman: We are gathered on this occasion to both look back, to enjoy the present, and then to most
Shirley M. Tilghman: importantly look forward to Princeton in the future and the role that women will undoubtedly
Shirley M. Tilghman: play in this University for the rest of time.
Shirley M. Tilghman: Diversity is an educational value at this University.
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Sonia Sotomayor: Walking in through those front gates and looking at Nassau Hall is bewitching and magical...
Sonia Sotomayor: but in many ways it turned out to be the exactly perfect place for me. And because I needed
Sonia Sotomayor: to learn so much when I was here, and the small personal environment that this University
Sonia Sotomayor: then, and I believe even today, gave, I was able to find professors who helped me grow.
Sonia Sotomayor: And that is what catapulted me into the rest of my life. Justice Stevens said it the best,
Sonia Sotomayor: which is, in the job you should be growing, always.
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Wendy Kopp: And I have to also thank Princeton for the opportunities it afforded me. Taking me from a
Wendy Kopp: bubble in Dallas, Texas, and exposing me to the intellectual rigors of Princeton and
Wendy Kopp: to a place where working hard was normal. It took me a year to get over being part of
Wendy Kopp: a student body and I don't know how many people out there this resonates with, where being
Wendy Kopp: motivated and driven was actually cool and normal. To having the Woodrow Wilson School,
Wendy Kopp: a place where I could pursue my passion of solving real-world problems and, of course,
Wendy Kopp: for the thesis requirement.
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Lisa Jackson: We do have things in common. We need to find them and outline where they are. And the aspiration to
Lisa Jackson: test the limits, to go beyond where people think we can be, is probably one of the first
Lisa Jackson: things we all have in common. That's something that brought us here to this extraordinary institution.
Lisa Jackson: It's up to us to pass it on. Nothing will inspire the next generation of
Lisa Jackson: women leaders like the example of this generation and we set that example.
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Andrea Jung: Leadership, women and Princeton have all really collided into what I think is an amazing inflection
Andrea Jung: point. Compassion is an equal, extraordinarily important facet of great leadership and I
Andrea Jung: believe in that hallmark very much. You can't reinvent your company until you reinvent yourself.
Andrea Jung: So, it was a great piece of advice and I share it with you because I think, for all of us --
Andrea Jung: women, men alike -- I think this concept of continual reinvention is what allows me
Andrea Jung: to be able to be in a job for a decade, which allows a company to be here for 125 years,
Andrea Jung: which allows enormously successful institutions like this to be here 250 years and plus. So,
Andrea Jung: the thought is at every aspect of life, but it does start from an individual basis,
Andrea Jung: in terms of just that very, very liberating but very, very disciplined constant transformation
Andrea Jung: and reinvention of yourself.
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