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I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.