原创《诺拉·艾芙隆在威尔斯利毕业典礼上演讲（1996）》：本文是一篇关于威尔斯利论文范文，可作为相关选题参考,和写作参考文献。
President Walsh, trustees, faculty, friends, noble parents...and dear class of 1996,2 I am so proud of you. Thank you for asking me to speak to you today.
I remember my own graduation from Wellesley very, very well. The speaker was Santha Rama Rau3 who was a woman writer.
I want to tell you a little bit about my class, the class of 1962. When we came to Wellesley in the fall of 1958, there was an article in the Harvard Crimson4 about the women’s colleges. We were girls then, by the way, Wellesley girls. How long ago was it? It was so long ago that while I was here, Wellesley actually threw six young women out for lesbianism5. It was so long ago that we had curfews6. It was so long ago that if you had a boy in your room, you had to leave the door open six inches, and if you closed the door you had to put a sock on the doorknob7. In my class, I don’t know, maybe 375 young women, there were six Asians and five Blacks. There was a strict quota8 on the number of Jews.
My class went to college in the era when you got a master’s degree in teaching because it was “something to fall back on” in the worst case scenario,9 the worst case scenario being that no one married you and you actually had to go to work. As one classmate said at our reunion, “Our education was a dress rehearsal for a life we never led.”10 Isn’t that the saddest line? We weren’t meant to have futures, we were meant to marry men. We weren’t meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives； we were meant to marry men. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.
My mother was a career woman, and all of us, her four daughters, grew up understanding that the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was as valid11 for girls as for boys.
Why am I telling you this? Things have changed. Things are different for you than they were for us. Just the fact that you chose to come to a single-sex college makes you smarter than we were—we came because it’s what you did in those days—and the college you are graduating from is a very different place. All sorts of things caused Wellesley to change, it did change, and today it’s a place that understands its obligations to women in today’s world. The women’s movement has made a huge difference, too, particularly for young women like you. There are women doctors and women lawyers. There are anchorwomen, although most of them are blonde.12 But at the same time, the pay differential between men and women has barely changed. Don’t underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back.13
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