Mount Vernon College for Women was a private women's college in Washington, D.C. It merged with George Washington University in 1999 and is now known as the Mount Vernon Campus of The George Washington University.
Read more about Mount Vernon College For Women: Founding of Mount Vernon Seminary and 204 F Street, NW, 1100 M Street, NW: 1880-1917, Nebraska Avenue Campus, 1917-1942, Spring Valley, 1943-1946, Foxhall Road 1946-1999, Recent History, 1999-present, Notable Alumnae
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“My name shall mount upon Eternitie.”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
“I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What had really caused the women’s movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women’s life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn’t live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was “the problem that had no name.” Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.”
—Betty Friedan (20th century)