Part of her 2009 commencement speech: You chose a Wellesley grad who spent the first decade of her career broke, begging for freelance work, who constantly heard she was under-qualified, or later, overqualified (that means old) or basically just plain wrong for whatever it was she wanted to do. She eventually ended up with a really great job, doing exactly what she wanted to do, exactly where she wanted to do it; in the Middle East. And she got hit by a car bomb; they nearly took her legs off. She had to come back from the dead, roughly five times, and learn how to walk again. So it tells me a lot about you and your current state of mind that you all thought you needed to hear from me, with whatever lessons I had to offer from those experiences as you leave college for the rest of your life. In short, you all want to know how to be bomb-proof, right? So, you're right. I learned a lot. Most of all, that every time I ran into a wall, I had tow choices on how to face it; hope or fear.
