Ruth Simmons in Newsweek

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Newsweek Sept. 25, 2006 issue (Top Women Speak on Leadership)

RUTH SIMMONS (President, Brown University)
So often in the workplace, women assume that they have to be just like everybody else, and downplay whatever is unique about them. I think it's just the opposite. Whatever I've accomplished in my life, I've done it precisely because I have been different. I have expressed different opinions, and I have been outspoken. I don't have any regrets about what remained unsaid or unspoken. The regrets I have are about decisions that I didn't take because I thought somebody else knew better.
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