“I would go to West Point again if I wasn't in the first class of women, but if I were going to be in the first class again, I wouldn't. It was too hard. It's difficult to explain what all of us went through, unless you're standing on our side of the fence... My fiancé loved it here, and when I try to explain to him how bad it was for me, it just flies by him. That is one of the tough, sticky points in our relationship. It's so hard to get across to someone—even someone as close as he is to me—what it was like.”

Brynnen Sheets, age 22, one of the first female graduates of West Point.

People Magazine, April 21, 1980.