She told Glamour, “The level of education and the difficulty and the challenge of Princeton was so important for me to triumph in, because it gave me a sense of my own self. Up until then, I was only what other people said I was or projected on to me. I just accepted it all because it didn’t occur to me to really nurture anything else. You get paid for that, and you get approval for it. So it’s like, Well, it’s not broken, why fix it? … But the level of this and the pride with which I had the ability to say, ‘I graduated with honors from this esteemed place,’ coming from the entertainment industry, I was able to have my own opinions. And I don’t think I had them before.”
