125 Years Sculpture First envisioned as a single freestanding work of art sitting at the intersection of 34th and Walnut Streets, the sculpture commemorating 125 years of women at Penn, dedicated at Homecoming this year, has become an integral part of a new landscape environment spanning from 34th and Walnut to 33rd and Chestnut. Working in collaboration with The Olin Partnership, landscape architects, and L'Observatoire, lighting designers, internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer has created a moving work capturing both the difficulties and the joys of securing a place for women in higher education at Penn and in America. Ms. Holzer selected quotes by women who attended Penn over the last 125 years to be inscribed on granite elements along the new walkway. These elements combined with tree species and custom lighting will create a special place, day and night, all year round. This sculpture, entitled 125 Years, is a gift to the University of Pennsylvania from the alumnae. This project was spearheaded by Alumni Trustee and Women's Sculpture Committee Chair, Deborah Marrow, CW'70, Gr'78 and Judith Roth Berkowitz, CW'64, Chair of the Celebration of 125 Years of Women at Penn. Additionally, in support of the University's arts and culture, the Trustees Council of Penn Women commissioned the music department to compose a score specifically for the dedication, performed by several singers and musicians. -> More about the sculpture and Hill Square --------------------------------- Sampling of Quotations:    -> Read more quotes "In spite of the long coolness, the years of banishment to the back stairs, I find an unexpected warmth in a consideration of the early years. If we, the women, had had everything from the very beginning, what would there have been to fight for, to yearn over, to wait for, finally to exult upon, in this walk around the block, this miracle of land acquired? The tired truth of discrimination on the part of some powerful reactionaries is now one for the history book." --Ruth Branning Molloy, 1957 "Virtually every country that has become independent in the last twenty years, has granted women the right to vote and the right to hold public office with the stroke of its constitutional pen. This is a far cry from only one hundred and fifty years ago, when in the entire world there was not one woman college graduate, not one woman who could vote or hold public office and not one married woman who could collect her own wages or call her legal soul her own." --Marietta Peabody Tree, 1964 "I'm sort of glad that I didn't just do things the traditional way--that I had to be innovative, that I had to be imaginative, that I had to think of things, that I went out and I also got some of the world's work done." --Irma Spritz Lustig, 1982 "Perhaps by dispelling old myths explicitly defining femininity and implicitly defining masculinity, women will liberate a few males as well." --Mary-Elizabeth Tondreau, 2001 "At the end of my life I don't want my work to be empty or meaningless. I want to look back at what I've done and say, 'This hasn't been for nothing.'" --Mary Ellen Mark (B.F.A. 1962; A.M. 1964), 1992 "Words are the life-blood of our university. For all their limitations, even if they sometimes drive us apart, words are what bind us together in the academy. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood the power of words. He believed that we must use them to talk about the difficult and painful issues that divide us, about race and about religion, about politics and about power, about gender and about identity." --Judith Seitz Rodin (B.A. 1966; President 1994-2004), 1995 "I think that the core of what education should do is help us love and appreciate those things, those qualities, and those people that are different from ourselves." --Andrea Darna Cherng (B.A. 1999), c. 2001