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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.00,0:00:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bet you're worried.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.00,0:00:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was worried. That's why I began this piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was worried about vaginas. I was worried what we think about vaginas,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even more worried that we don't think about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.00,0:00:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was worried about my own vagina.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.00,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It needed a context, a culture, a community of other vaginas.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.00,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the Bermuda Triangle, nobody ever reports back from there.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the first place, it's not so easy to even find your vagina.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.00,0:00:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women go days, weeks, months, without looking at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.00,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I interviewed a high-powered businesswoman;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she told me she didn't have time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Looking at your vagina," she said, "is a full day's work."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.00,0:00:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You've got to get down there on your back, in front of a mirror,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full-length preferred. You've got to get in the perfect position,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the perfect light, which then becomes shadowed by the angle you're at.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're twisting your head up, arching your back, it's exhausting."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.00,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was busy; she didn't have time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.00,0:01:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They began as casual vagina interviews,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they turned into vagina monologues.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked with over 200 women. I talked to older women,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.00,0:01:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,younger women, married women, lesbians, single women;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.00,0:01:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked to corporate professionals, college professors, actors, sex workers;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.00,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked to African-American women, Asian-American women,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.00,0:01:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Native-American women, Caucasian women, Jewish women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.00,0:01:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, at first women were a little shy, a little reluctant to talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.00,0:01:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once they got going, you couldn't stop them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.00,0:01:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women love to talk about their vaginas -- they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.00,0:01:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mainly because no one's ever asked them before.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.00,0:01:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's just start with the word "vagina" -- vagina, vagina.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.00,0:02:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sounds like an infection at best. Maybe a medical instrument.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.00,0:02:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hurry, nurse, bring the vagina."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.00,0:02:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vagina, vagina, vagina. It doesn't matter how many times
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you say the word, it never sounds like a word you want to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a completely ridiculous, totally un-sexy word.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.00,0:02:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.00,0:02:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Darling, would you stroke my vagina," you kill the act right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm worried what we call them and don't call them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Great Neck, New York, they call it a "pussy-cat."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.00,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A woman told me there, her mother used to tell her,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't wear panties, dear, underneath your pajamas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.00,0:02:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to air out your pussy-cat."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.00,0:02:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Westchester they call it a "pooky," in New Jersey a "twat."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's powder-box, derriere, a pooky, a poochy, a poopy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a poopaloo, a pooninana, a padepachetchki, a pow, and a peach.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.00,0:03:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's toadie, dee dee, nishi, dignity, coochie snorcher, cooter,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.00,0:03:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,labi, gladis siegelman, va, wee-wee, whore-spot, nappy dugout,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.00,0:03:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mungo, ghoulie, powder-box, a "mimi" in Miami,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.00,0:03:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a "split knish" in Philadelphia, and a "schmende" in the Bronx.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.00,0:03:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.00,0:03:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am worried about vaginas.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.00,0:03:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how the "Vagina Monologues" begins.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.00,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it really didn't begin there; it began with a conversation with a woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were having a conversation about menopause,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.00,0:03:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we got onto the subject of her vagina --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.00,0:03:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which you'll do if you're talking about menopause.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.00,0:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said things that really shocked me about her vagina --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.00,0:03:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was dried-up and finished and dead -- and I was kind of shocked.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.00,0:03:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I said to a friend casually, "Well, what do you think about your vagina?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.00,0:03:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that woman said something more amazing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:04:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the next woman said something more amazing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.00,0:04:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and before I knew it, every woman was telling me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.00,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to talk to somebody about their vagina because they had an amazing story,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.00,0:04:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was sucked down the vagina trail.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.00,0:04:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.00,0:04:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really haven't gotten off it. I think if you had told me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.00,0:04:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was younger that I was going to grow up, and be in shoe stores,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.00,0:04:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people were going to scream out, "There she is, the Vagina Lady!"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.00,0:04:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know that that would have been my life ambition.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.00,0:04:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.00,0:04:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want to talk a little bit about happiness and the relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.00,0:04:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this whole vagina journey because
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.00,0:04:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has been an extraordinary journey that began eight years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.00,0:04:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think before I did the "Vagina Monologues"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.00,0:04:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't really believe in happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.00,0:04:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that only idiots were happy, to be honest.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.00,0:04:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember when I started practicing Buddhism 14 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.00,0:04:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was told that the end of this practice was to be happy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.00,0:04:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "How could you be happy and live in this world of suffering
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.00,0:04:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and live in this world of pain?" I mistook happiness for a lot of other things,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.00,0:05:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like numbness or decadence or selfishness.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.00,0:05:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what happened through the course of the "Vagina Monologues"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.00,0:05:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this journey is I think I have come to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.00,0:05:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit more about happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.00,0:05:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There're three qualities I want to talk about.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.00,0:05:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is seeing what's right in front of you, and talking about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.00,0:05:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stating it. I think what I learned from talking about the vagina,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speaking about the vagina, is it was the most obvious thing --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.00,0:05:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was right in the center of my body and the center of the world --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.00,0:05:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet it was the one thing nobody talked about.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.00,0:05:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing is that what talking about the vagina did
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.00,0:05:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it opened this door which allowed me to see
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.00,0:05:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there was a way to serve the world to make it better.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.00,0:05:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's where the deepest happiness has actually come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.00,0:05:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the third principle of happiness, which I've realized recently.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.00,0:05:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight years ago, this momentum and this energy, this "V-wave" started --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.00,0:05:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can only describe it as a "V-wave" because, to be honest,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.00,0:05:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really don't understand it completely; I feel at the service of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.00,0:06:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this wave started, and if I question the wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.00,0:06:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or try to stop the wave or look back at the wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.00,0:06:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I often have the experience of whiplash
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.00,0:06:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the potential of my neck breaking. But if I go with the wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.00,0:06:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I trust the wave and I move with the wave, I go to the next place,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.00,0:06:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it happens logically and organically and truthfully.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.00,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started this piece, particularly with stories and narratives,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was talking to one woman and that led to another woman
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.00,0:06:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that led to another woman, and then I wrote those stories down
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.00,0:06:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I put them out in front of other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.00,0:06:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every single time I did the show at the beginning,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.00,0:06:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women would literally line up after the show
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.00,0:06:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they wanted to tell me their stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.00,0:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at first I thought, "Oh great, I'll hear about wonderful orgasms,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.00,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and great sex lives, and how women love their vaginas."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.00,0:06:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact, that's not what women lined up to tell me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.00,0:06:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What women lined up to tell me was how they were raped,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.00,0:06:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they were battered, and how they were beaten,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.00,0:06:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they were gang-raped in parking lots,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.00,0:06:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they were incested by their uncles.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.00,0:07:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wanted to stop doing the "Vagina Monologues"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.00,0:07:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it felt too daunting. I felt like a war photographer
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.00,0:07:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who takes pictures of terrible events, but doesn't intervene on their behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.00,0:07:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so in 1997, I said, "Let's get women together.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.00,0:07:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What could we do with this information that all these women are being violated?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.00,0:07:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it turned out, after thinking and investigating,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.00,0:07:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I discovered -- and the UN has actually said this recently --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.00,0:07:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one out of every three women on this planet
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.00,0:07:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be beaten or raped in her lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.00,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's essentially a gender; that's essentially a resource of the planet, which is women.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in 1997 we got all these incredible women together and we said,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.00,0:07:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How can we use the play, this energy, to stop violence against women?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.00,0:07:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we put on one event in New York City, in the theater,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.00,0:07:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all these great actors came -- from Susan Sarandon,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.00,0:07:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Glenn Close, to Whoopi Goldberg -- and we did one performance
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.00,0:07:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on one evening, and that catalyzed this wave, this energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.00,0:08:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And within five years, this extraordinary thing began to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.00,0:08:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One woman took that energy and she said, "I want to bring this wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.00,0:08:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this energy, to college campuses," and so she took the play
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.00,0:08:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she said, "Let's use the play and have performances of the play
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.00,0:08:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once a year, where we can raise money to stop violence against women
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.00,0:08:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in local communities all around the world."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.00,0:08:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in one year, it went to 50 colleges, and then it expanded.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.00,0:08:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And over the course of the last six years, it's spread
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.00,0:08:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's spread and it's spread and it's spread around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.00,0:08:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I have learned is two things. One: that the epidemic
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.00,0:08:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of violence towards women is shocking; it's global;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.00,0:08:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is so profound and it is so devastating,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.00,0:08:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is so in every little pocket of every little crater,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.00,0:08:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every little society, that we don't even recognize it
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.00,0:08:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's become ordinary. This journey has taken me to Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.00,0:08:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I had the extraordinary honor and privilege to go into
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.00,0:08:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,parts of Afghanistan under the Taliban -- I was dressed in a burqa --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.00,0:09:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went in with an extraordinary group called the
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.00,0:09:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.00,0:09:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw firsthand how women had been stripped
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.00,0:09:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every single right that was possible to strip women of --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.00,0:09:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from being educated, to being employed, to being
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.00,0:09:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually allowed to eat ice cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.00,0:09:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those of you who don't know it, it was illegal to eat ice cream under the Taliban.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.00,0:09:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I actually saw and met women who had been flogged
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.00,0:09:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by being caught eating vanilla ice cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.00,0:09:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was taken to the secret ice cream-eating place in a little town,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.00,0:09:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we went to a back room, and women were seated
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.00,0:09:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a curtain was pulled around us, and they were served vanilla ice cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.00,0:09:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And women lifted their burqas and ate this ice cream,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.00,0:09:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't think I ever understood pleasure until that moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.00,0:09:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how women have found a way to keep their pleasure alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.00,0:09:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has taken me, this journey, to Islamabad, where I have
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.00,0:09:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,witnessed and met women with their faces melted off.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.00,0:09:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has taken me to Juarez, Mexico, where I was a week ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.00,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I have literally been there in parking lots
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.00,0:10:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where bones of women have washed up and been dumped
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.00,0:10:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next to Coca-Cola bottles.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.00,0:10:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has taken me to universities
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.00,0:10:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all over this country where girls are date-raped and drugged.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.00,0:10:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have seen terrible, terrible, terrible violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.00,0:10:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have also recognized, in the course of seeing that violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.00,0:10:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that being in the face of things and seeing actually
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.00,0:10:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's in front of us is the antidote to depression and to a feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.00,0:10:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one is worthless and has no value.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.00,0:10:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because before the "Vagina Monologues,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.00,0:10:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will say that 80 percent of my consciousness was closed off
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.00,0:10:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what was really going on in this reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.00,0:10:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that closing-off closed off my vitality and my life energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.00,0:10:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What has also happened is in the course of these travels --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.00,0:10:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's been an extraordinary thing -- is that every single place
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.00,0:10:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I have gone to in the world, I have met a new species.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.00,0:10:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really love hearing about all these species at the bottom of the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.00,0:10:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was thinking about how being with these
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.00,0:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extraordinary people on this particular panel
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.00,0:11:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's beneath, beyond, and between,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.00,0:11:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the vagina kind of fits into all those categories.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.00,0:11:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.00,0:11:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But one of the things I've seen is this species --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.00,0:11:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is a species, and it is a new paradigm,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.00,0:11:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it doesn't get reported in the press or in the media
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.00,0:11:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I don't think good news ever is news,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.00,0:11:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't think people who are transforming the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.00,0:11:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are what gets the ratings on TV shows.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But every single country I have been to -- and in the last six years
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.00,0:11:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been to about 45 countries, and many tiny little villages and cities and towns --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.00,0:11:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have seen something what I've come to call "vagina warriors."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.00,0:11:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A "vagina warrior" is a woman, or a vagina-friendly man,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.00,0:11:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has witnessed incredible violence or suffered it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.00,0:11:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rather than getting an AK-47 or a weapon of mass destruction
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.00,0:11:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a machete, they hold the violence in their bodies;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.00,0:12:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they grieve it; they experience it; and then they go out and devote
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.00,0:12:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their lives to making sure it doesn't happen to anybody else.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.00,0:12:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have met these women everywhere on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.00,0:12:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to tell a few stories because I believe that
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.00,0:12:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stories are the way that we transmit information,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.00,0:12:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it goes into our bodies. And I think that one of the things
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.00,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about being at TED that's been very interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that I live in my body a lot, and I don't live in my head very much anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.00,0:12:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is a very heady place.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.00,0:12:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's been really interesting to be in my head
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.00,0:12:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the last two days; I've been very disoriented --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.00,0:12:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.00,0:12:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I think the world, the V-world, is very much in your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.00,0:12:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a body world, and the species really exists in the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.00,0:12:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think there's a real significance in us
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.00,0:12:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attaching our bodies to our heads -- that that separation
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.00,0:12:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has created a divide that is often separating purpose from intent.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.00,0:12:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the connection between body and head often brings those things into union.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.00,0:12:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to talk about three particular people
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.00,0:13:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I've met, vagina warriors, who really transformed my understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.00,0:13:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this whole principle and species,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.00,0:13:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one is a woman named Marsha Lopez.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.00,0:13:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marsha Lopez was a woman I met in Guatemala.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.00,0:13:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was 14 years old, and she was in a marriage
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.00,0:13:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her husband was beating her on a regular basis,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.00,0:13:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she couldn't get out because she was addicted to the relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.00,0:13:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she had no money. Her sister was younger than her
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.00,0:13:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she applied -- we had a "stop rape" contest a few years ago in New York --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.00,0:13:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she applied, hoping that she would become a finalist
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.00,0:13:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she could bring her sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.00,0:13:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She did become a finalist; she brought Marsha to New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.00,0:13:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that time we did this extraordinary V-Day
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.00,0:13:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Madison Square Garden where we sold out the entire testosterone-filled dome,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.00,0:13:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,18,000 people standing up to say
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.00,0:13:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"yes" to vaginas, which was really a pretty incredible transformation.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.00,0:13:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she came, and she witnessed this, and she decided
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.00,0:13:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she would go back and leave her husband,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.00,0:13:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that she would bring V-Day to Guatemala.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.00,0:14:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was 21 years old. I went to Guatemala and she had sold out
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.00,0:14:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the National Theater of Guatemala.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.00,0:14:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I watched her walk up on stage in her red short dress, and high heels,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.00,0:14:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she stood there and she said, "My name is Marsha.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.00,0:14:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was beaten by my husband for five years.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.00,0:14:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He almost murdered me. I left and you can too."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.00,0:14:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the entire 2,000 people went absolutely crazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.00,0:14:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a woman named Esther Chavez
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.00,0:14:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who I met in Juarez, Mexico. And Esther Chavez
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.00,0:14:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a brilliant accountant in Mexico City; she was 72 years old;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.00,0:14:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she was planning to retire.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.00,0:14:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She went to Juarez to take care of an ailing aunt, and over the course of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.00,0:14:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she began to discover what was happening to the murdered
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.00,0:14:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and disappeared women of Juarez.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.00,0:14:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She gave up her life; she moved to Juarez;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.00,0:14:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she started to write the stories which documented the disappeared women.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.00,0:14:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,300 women have disappeared
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.00,0:14:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a border town because they're brown and poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.00,0:14:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has been no response to the disappearance,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.00,0:14:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not one person has been held accountable.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.00,0:15:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She began to document it; she opened a center called Casa Amiga;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.00,0:15:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in six years, she has literally brought this
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.00,0:15:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the consciousness of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.00,0:15:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were there a week ago, when there were 7,000 people on the street,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.00,0:15:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was truly a miracle. And as we walked through the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.00,0:15:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people of Juarez, who normally don't even come into the streets
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.00,0:15:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the streets are so dangerous, literally stood there and wept
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.00,0:15:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see that other people from the world had showed up
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.00,0:15:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for that particular community.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.00,0:15:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's another woman named Agnes. And Agnes, for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.00,0:15:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,epitomizes what a vagina warrior is.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.00,0:15:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met her three years ago in Kenya. And Agnes was mutilated as a little girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.00,0:15:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was circumcised against her will
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.00,0:15:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when she was 10 years old, and she really made a decision
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.00,0:15:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she didn't want this practice to continue anymore in her community.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.00,0:15:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when she got older she created this incredible thing:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.00,0:15:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an anatomical sculpture of a woman's body; it's half a woman's body.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.00,0:15:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she walked through the Rift Valley, and she had
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.00,0:16:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vagina and vagina replacement parts where she would teach
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.00,0:16:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,girls and parents and boys and girls what a healthy vagina looks like,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.00,0:16:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what a mutilated vagina looks like. And in the course of her travel
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.00,0:16:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she walked literally for eight years through the Rift Valley,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.00,0:16:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through dust, through sleeping on the ground -- because the Masais are nomads,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.00,0:16:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she would literally have to find them, and they would move,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.00,0:16:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she would find them again. She saved 1,500 girls from being cut.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.00,0:16:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in that time she created an alternative ritual which involved
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.00,0:16:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,girls coming of age without the cut.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.00,0:16:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we met her three years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.00,0:16:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we said, "What could V-Day do for you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.00,0:16:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said, "Well, if you got me a Jeep, I could get around a lot faster."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.00,0:16:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.00,0:16:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we bought her a Jeep. And in the year that she had the Jeep,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.00,0:16:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she saved 4,500 girls from being cut. So then we said to her,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.00,0:16:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Agnes, well, what else could we do for you?" And she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.00,0:16:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, Eve, you know, if you gave me some money,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.00,0:16:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could open a house and girls could run away and they could be saved."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.00,0:16:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to tell this little story about my own beginnings
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.00,0:17:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's very interrelated to happiness and Agnes.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.00,0:17:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a little girl -- and I grew up
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.00,0:17:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a wealthy community; it was an upper-middle class white community,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.00,0:17:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it had all the trappings
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.00,0:17:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the looks of a perfectly nice, wonderful, great life.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.00,0:17:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everyone was supposed to be happy in that community
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.00,0:17:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, in fact, my life was hell. I lived with an alcoholic father
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.00,0:17:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who beat me and molested me, and it was all inside that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.00,0:17:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And always as a child I had this fantasy that somebody would come and rescue me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.00,0:17:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I actually made up a little character whose name was Mr. Alligator,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.00,0:17:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would call him up when things got really bad,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.00,0:17:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would say it was time to come and pick me up.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.00,0:17:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would go and pack a little bag and I would wait for Mr. Alligator to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.00,0:17:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Mr. Alligator never did come,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.00,0:17:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the idea of Mr. Alligator coming actually saved my sanity
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.00,0:17:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made it OK for me to keep going because I believed,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.00,0:17:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the distance, there would be someone coming to rescue me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.00,0:17:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cut to 40-some-odd years later, we go to Kenya,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.00,0:18:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're walking, we arrive at the opening of this house --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.00,0:18:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Agnes hadn't let me come to the house for days
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.00,0:18:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they were preparing this whole ritual.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.00,0:18:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to tell you a great story. When Agnes first started
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.00,0:18:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting to stop female genital mutilation in her community,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.00,0:18:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had become an outcast, and she was exiled and she was slandered,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.00,0:18:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whole community turned against her.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.00,0:18:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, being a vagina warrior, she kept going,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.00,0:18:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she kept committing herself to transforming consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.00,0:18:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the Masai community, goats and cows are the most valued possession.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.00,0:18:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're like the Mercedes-Benz of the Rift Valley.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.00,0:18:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said, two days before the house opened, two different people
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.00,0:18:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arrived to give her a goat each, and she said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.00,0:18:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I knew then that female genital mutilation would end one day in Africa."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.00,0:18:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, we arrived, and when we arrived,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.00,0:18:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were hundreds of girls dressed in red, homemade dresses --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.00,0:18:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the color of the Masai and the color of V-Day --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.00,0:18:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they greeted us, and they had made up these songs
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.00,0:18:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they were singing about the end of suffering,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.00,0:19:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the end of mutilation, and they walked us down the path.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.00,0:19:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was a gorgeous day in the African sun,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.00,0:19:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the dust was flying and the girls were dancing,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.00,0:19:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was this house, and it said, "V-Day Safe House for the Girls."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.00,0:19:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it hit me in that moment that it had taken 47 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.00,0:19:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that Mr. Alligator had finally shown up.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.00,0:19:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he'd show up obviously in a form that it took me a long time to understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.00,0:19:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is that when we give
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.00,0:19:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.00,0:19:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I feel, in the last eight years,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.00,0:19:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this journey, this miraculous vagina journey,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.00,0:19:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has taught me this really simple thing, which is that happiness exists in action;
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.00,0:19:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it exists in telling the truth and saying what your truth is;
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.00,0:19:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it exists in giving away what you want the most.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.00,0:19:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I feel that knowledge and that journey
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.00,0:20:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been an extraordinary privilege,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.00,0:20:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I feel really blessed to have been here today to communicate that to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.00,0:20:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.00,0:20:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)