Anna Quindlen: Mount Holyoke
Text of Quindlen's May 1999 graduation speech, delivered at Mount Holyoke College
www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/Quindlen.shtml
Wisdom Engine
Motivational advice from commencement speeches and visual self-help affirmations.
www.graduationwisdom.com
Barbara Bush: Wellesley College
Includes text and audio files from the June, 1990 commencement address.
www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1990/bush.html
Suzan-Lori Parks: Mount Holyoke College
Text of a May 2001 address by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College.
www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/loriparks.shtml
Nora Ephron: Wellesley College
Text of Ephron's 1996 speech.
www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1996/speechesnephron.html
Robert Pinsky: Stanford University
Transcript of the speech given by the Poet Laureate in 1999.
news-service.stanford.edu/news/1999/june16/pinsky-616.html
Sandra Day O'Connor: Stanford University
Text of the 2004 commencement address by Sandra Day O'Connor, associate justice, Supreme Court of the United States.
news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/june16/oconnor-text-616.html
George Bush: Johns Hopkins University
Text of the May 22, 1996 address given by former President Bush.
www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ97/oct97/bushtext.html