Women at Penn: Quotations
Dedicated to the memory of Ruth Branning Molloy, B.S. in Ed. 1930
Many of these quotations were used in Jenny Holzer’s Hill Square sculpture commemorating 125 Years of Women at Penn
![First women to matriculate at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the chemistry laboratory, 1878](https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/first-women-1878-150x150.jpg) First women to matriculate at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the chemistry laboratory, 1878 (L to R: Gertrude K. Peirce, Anna L. Flanigen, and Mary T. Lewis)
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1750-1900
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!["Ivy Girl" illustration, 1913](https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ivy-girl-illustration-1913-150x150.jpeg) “Ivy Girl” illustration, 1913
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1910-1919
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![Betty Funston, with rifle, 1928](https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/betty-funston-1928-150x150.jpeg) Betty Funston, with rifle, 1928
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1920-1929
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1930-1939
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![Women's Sports Team, 1940](https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/womens-sports-team-1940-150x150.jpeg) Women’s Sports Team, 1940
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1940-1949
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![Student protest outside Eisenlohr Hall, 1952](https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/student-protest-eisenlohr-hall-1952-150x150.jpeg) Student protest outside Eisenlohr Hall, 1952
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1950-1959
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![Ivy Day, first co-ed program, 1963](https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ivy-day-coed-1963-150x150.jpg) Ivy Day, first co-ed program, 1963
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1960-1969
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1970-1979
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1980-1989
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![Commencement, woman graduate in cap and gown, festooned with flowers, 1982](https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/commencement-woman-1982-150x150.jpeg) Commencement, woman graduate in cap and gown, festooned with flowers, 1982
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1990-2003
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