Victoria Kennedy addresses women's conference
In a keynote address this morning to the sixth annual Massachusetts Conference for Women, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, a health care advocate and the widow of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, urged attendees to "be fearlessly resilient... to discover what you want and go get it."
Over 6,500 women attended the day-long conference at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, which was organized around the theme, "Your time is now."
In her talk, Kennedy, who is an attorney, recounted how a college English professor urged her to go to law school over graduate school in English. She also praised the impact of mentors, "who open our eyes to imagine something different."
Myra Bradwell, the first woman ever to practice law in the United States, was cited by Kennedy as an example of a woman who persevered to follow her goal to work as an attorney.
Kennedy, who said she was still fine-tuning her own dream, ended her remarks by citing the words of "the most positive, inspiring and persevering man I have ever known," her late husband Edward Kennedy, quoting a selection from his memoir, "True Compass," that urged people to follow their dreams.
"If you do your best, and keep a true compass," she read from the book, "you will get there."
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