Ahead Quote by Gloria Steinem

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

— Mitch Leigh

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

— Kehinde Wiley

“Let’s just say, there’s not much of a moon out tonight,” Nose continued anyway, “but if Yale joined us, there would be.”

— Ripley Patton

At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

— Peter Salovey

“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]”

— Cornel West

“I need you, your boat and your equipment for a month, maybe two. I can’t dive alone because I just don’t know the waters…

— Nora Roberts

Well, the thing that I realized - I had this very happy, rosy memory of Yale. And I had even described it in the…

— Leigh Bardugo

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

— Claire Danes

“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the…

— John F. Kennedy

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once…

— George Burns

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much…

— Baratunde Thurston

“Through these uncharted roads, I hope to escape my recollections; I am so tired of seeing signboards, and following the same directions.”

— Akash Mandal