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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.39,0:00:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bet you're worried.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.00,0:00:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.00,0:00:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was worried.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.16,0:00:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I began this piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.85,0:00:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was worried about vaginas.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.76,0:00:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was worried what we think about vaginas
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even more worried\Nthat we don't think about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.65,0:00:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was worried about my own vagina.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.85,0:00:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It needed a context, a culture,\Na community of other vaginas.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.02,0:00:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is so much darkness\Nand secrecy surrounding them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.74,0:00:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the Bermuda Triangle,\Nnobody ever reports back from there.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.42,0:00:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.54,0:00:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the first place, it's not so easy\Nto even find your vagina.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.66,0:00:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women go days, weeks, months,\Nwithout looking at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.14,0:00:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I interviewed a high-powered\Nbusinesswoman;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.48,0:00:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she told me she didn't have time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.00,0:00:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Looking at your vagina,"\Nshe said, "is a full day's work."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.88,0:00:51.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.00,0:00:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You've got to get down there\Non your back, in front of a mirror,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.12,0:00:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full-length preferred.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.44,0:00:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to get in the perfect position\Nwith the perfect light,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.57,0:01:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which then becomes shadowed\Nby the angle you're at.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're twisting your head up,\Narching your back, it's exhausting."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.24,0:01:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was busy; she didn't have time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.88,0:01:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided to talk to women\Nabout their vaginas.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.07,0:01:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They began as casual vagina interviews,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.06,0:01:16.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they turned into vagina monologues.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.76,0:01:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked with over 200 women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.01,0:01:21.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked to older women, younger women,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.43,0:01:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,married women, lesbians, single women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.16,0:01:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked to corporate professionals,\Ncollege professors, actors, sex workers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.00,0:01:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked to African-American women,\NAsian-American women,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.53,0:01:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Native-American women,\NCaucasian women, Jewish women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.76,0:01:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, at first women were a little shy,\Na little reluctant to talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.05,0:01:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once they got going,\Nyou couldn't stop them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.19,0:01:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women love to talk\Nabout their vaginas, they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.12,0:01:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mainly because no one's ever\Nasked them before.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.58,0:01:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.68,0:01:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's just start with the word\N"vagina" -- vagina, vagina.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.00,0:02:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sounds like an infection, at best.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.88,0:02:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe a medical instrument.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.60,0:02:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hurry, nurse, bring the vagina!"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.38,0:02:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.47,0:02:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vagina, vagina, vagina.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.06,0:02:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't matter how many times\Nyou say the word,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.63,0:02:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it never sounds like a word\Nyou want to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.31,0:02:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a completely ridiculous,\Ntotally un-sexy word.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.00,0:02:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you use it during sex,\Ntrying to be politically correct,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.10,0:02:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Darling, would you stroke my vagina,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.33,0:02:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you kill the act right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.45,0:02:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.14,0:02:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm worried what we call them\Nand don't call them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.82,0:02:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Great Neck, New York,\Nthey call it a Pussycat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.58,0:02:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A woman told me there\Nher mother used to tell her,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't wear panties, dear,\Nunderneath your pajamas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.43,0:02:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to air out your Pussycat."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.24,0:02:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Westchester, they call it a Pooki,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.71,0:02:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in New Jersey, a twat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.88,0:02:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Powderbox, derriere,\Na Pooky, a Poochi, a Poopi,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.21,0:02:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Poopelu, a Pooninana,\Na Padepachetchki, a Pal, and a Piche.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.71,0:02:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.19,0:03:04.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Toadie, Dee Dee, Nishi,\NDignity, Coochi Snorcher,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.61,0:03:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cooter, Labbe, Gladys Seagelman, VA,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.48,0:03:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wee wee, Horsespot, Nappy Dugout,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.00,0:03:20.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mongo, Ghoulie, Powderbox,\Na Mimi in Miami,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.23,0:03:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Split Knish in Philadelphia ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.36,0:03:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.47,0:03:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a Schmende in the Bronx.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.38,0:03:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.60,0:03:28.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am worried about vaginas.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.64,0:03:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how the "Vagina\NMonologues" begins.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.44,0:03:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it really didn't begin there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.07,0:03:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It began with a conversation with a woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.72,0:03:41.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were having a conversation\Nabout menopause,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.24,0:03:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we got onto the subject of her vagina,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.29,0:03:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which you'll do if you're\Ntalking about menopause.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.66,0:03:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said things that really\Nshocked me about her vagina --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.63,0:03:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was dried-up\Nand finished and dead --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.77,0:03:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was kind of shocked.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.05,0:03:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said to a friend casually,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.74,0:03:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, what do you think\Nabout your vagina?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.82,0:03:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that woman said\Nsomething more amazing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.86,0:04:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the next woman said\Nsomething more amazing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.32,0:04:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and before I knew it,\Nevery woman was telling me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.59,0:04:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to talk to somebody\Nabout their vagina
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.69,0:04:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they had an amazing story,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.34,0:04:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was sucked down the vagina trail.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.25,0:04:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.58,0:04:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really haven't gotten off of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.04,0:04:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think if you had told me\Nwhen I was younger
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.17,0:04:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was going to grow up,\Nand be in shoe stores,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.58,0:04:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people would scream out,\N"There she is, the Vagina Lady!"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.47,0:04:22.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know that that would have\Nbeen my life ambition.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.14,0:04:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.16,0:04:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want to talk a little bit\Nabout happiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.43,0:04:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the relationship\Nto this whole vagina journey,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.81,0:04:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it has been\Nan extraordinary journey
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.91,0:04:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that began eight years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.63,0:04:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think before I did\Nthe "Vagina Monologues,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.92,0:04:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't really believe in happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.75,0:04:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that only idiots\Nwere happy, to be honest.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.80,0:04:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember when I started\Npracticing Buddhism 14 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.62,0:04:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was told that the end\Nof this practice was to be happy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.84,0:04:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "How could you be happy\Nand live in this world of suffering
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.22,0:04:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and live in this world of pain?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.05,0:04:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mistook happiness\Nfor a lot of other things,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.00,0:04:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like numbness or decadence or selfishness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.72,0:05:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what happened through the course\Nof the "Vagina Monologues"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.71,0:05:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this journey is,\NI think I have come to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.28,0:05:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit more about happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.54,0:05:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are three qualities\NI want to talk about.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.00,0:05:13.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is seeing what's\Nright in front of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.94,0:05:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and talking about it, and stating it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.42,0:05:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what I learned\Nfrom talking about the vagina
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speaking about the vagina,\Nis it was the most obvious thing --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.17,0:05:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was right in the center of my body\Nand the center of the world --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.43,0:05:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet it was the one thing\Nnobody talked about.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.23,0:05:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing is that what talking\Nabout the vagina did
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.51,0:05:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it opened this door\Nwhich allowed me to see
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.44,0:05:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there was a way to serve\Nthe world to make it better.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.49,0:05:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's where the deepest happiness\Nhas actually come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.00,0:05:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the third principle of happiness,\Nwhich I've realized recently:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.73,0:05:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight years ago, this momentum\Nand this energy, this "V-wave" started --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.00,0:05:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can only describe it\Nas a "V-wave" because, to be honest,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.25,0:05:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really don't understand it completely;\NI feel at the service of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.00,0:05:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this wave started,\Nand if I question the wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.00,0:06:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or try to stop the wave\Nor look back at the wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.46,0:06:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I often have the experience of whiplash
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.00,0:06:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the potential of my neck breaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.28,0:06:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if I go with the wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.65,0:06:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I trust the wave\Nand I move with the wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.07,0:06:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go to the next place, and it happens\Nlogically and organically and truthfully.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.60,0:06:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started this piece, particularly\Nwith stories and narratives,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.32,0:06:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was talking to one woman\Nand that led to another woman
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.18,0:06:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that led to another woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.02,0:06:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I wrote those stories down,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.89,0:06:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I put them out\Nin front of other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.12,0:06:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every single time\NI did the show at the beginning,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.72,0:06:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women would literally\Nline up after the show,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.42,0:06:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they wanted\Nto tell me their stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.68,0:06:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at first I thought, "Oh great,\NI'll hear about wonderful orgasms,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.01,0:06:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and great sex lives, and how women\Nlove their vaginas."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.64,0:06:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact, that's not\Nwhat women lined up to tell me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.31,0:06:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What women lined up to tell me\Nwas how they were raped,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.43,0:06:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they were battered,\Nand how they were beaten,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.93,0:06:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they were gang-raped\Nin parking lots,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.11,0:06:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they were incested\Nby their uncles.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.16,0:07:00.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wanted to stop doing\Nthe "Vagina Monologues,"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.88,0:07:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it felt too daunting.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.31,0:07:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt like a war photographer\Nwho takes pictures of terrible events,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.80,0:07:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but doesn't intervene on their behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.18,0:07:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so in 1997, I said,\N"Let's get women together.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.42,0:07:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What could we do with this information
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.62,0:07:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all these women are being violated?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.54,0:07:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it turned out, after thinking\Nand investigating,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.75,0:07:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I discovered -- and the UN\Nhas actually said this recently --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.17,0:07:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one out of every three\Nwomen on this planet
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.00,0:07:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be beaten or raped in her lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.10,0:07:31.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's essentially a gender;
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.69,0:07:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's essentially the resource\Nof the planet, which is women.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.11,0:07:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in 1997 we got all these incredible\Nwomen together and we said,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.31,0:07:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How can we use the play, this energy,\Nto stop violence against women?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.77,0:07:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we put on one event\Nin New York City, in the theater,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.47,0:07:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all these great actors\Ncame -- from Susan Sarandon,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.08,0:07:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Glenn Close, to Whoopi Goldberg --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.92,0:07:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we did one performance on one evening,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.78,0:07:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that catalyzed this wave, this energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.00,0:07:59.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And within five years,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.08,0:08:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this extraordinary thing began to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.56,0:08:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One woman took that energy and she said,\N"I want to bring this wave,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.00,0:08:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this energy, to college campuses,"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.59,0:08:09.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so she took the play and she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.63,0:08:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Let's use the play and have\Nperformances once a year,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.83,0:08:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we can raise money\Nto stop violence against women
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.44,0:08:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in local communities\Nall around the world."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.68,0:08:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in one year, it went to 50 colleges,\Nand then it expanded.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.17,0:08:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And over the course of the last six years,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.47,0:08:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's spread and it's spread\Nand it's spread around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.39,0:08:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I have learned is two things:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.00,0:08:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one, that the epidemic of violence\Ntowards women is shocking; it's global;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.00,0:08:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is so profound\Nand it is so devastating,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.07,0:08:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is so in every little pocket\Nof every little crater,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.00,0:08:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every little society\Nthat we don't even recognize it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.69,0:08:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's become ordinary.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.85,0:08:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This journey has taken me to Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.78,0:08:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I had the extraordinary\Nhonor and privilege
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.53,0:08:56.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go into parts of Afghanistan\Nunder the Taliban.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.88,0:09:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was dressed in a burqa and I went in\Nwith an extraordinary group,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.55,0:09:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called the Revolutionary Association\Nof the Women of Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.94,0:09:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I saw firsthand\Nhow women had been stripped
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.00,0:09:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every single right that was possible\Nto strip women of --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.19,0:09:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from being educated, to being employed,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.72,0:09:16.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to being actually allowed\Nto eat ice cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.72,0:09:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those of you who don't know,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.29,0:09:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was illegal to eat ice cream\Nunder the Taliban.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.66,0:09:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I actually saw and met\Nwomen who had been flogged
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.46,0:09:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for being caught eating vanilla ice cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.80,0:09:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was taken to the secret ice cream-eating\Nplace in a little town,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.22,0:09:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we went to a back room,\Nand women were seated
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.09,0:09:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a curtain was pulled around us,\Nand they were served vanilla ice cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.84,0:09:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And women lifted their burqas\Nand ate this ice cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.28,0:09:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't think I ever understood\Npleasure until that moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.43,0:09:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how women have found a way\Nto keep their pleasure alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.00,0:09:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has taken me, this journey,\Nto Islamabad,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.57,0:09:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I have witnessed and met women\Nwith their faces melted off.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.23,0:09:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has taken me to Juarez, Mexico,\Nwhere I was a week ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.11,0:10:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I have literally been\Nthere in parking lots,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.75,0:10:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where bones of women have washed up
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.63,0:10:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and been dumped next to Coca-Cola bottles.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.67,0:10:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has taken me to universities\Nall over this country,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.70,0:10:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where girls are date-raped and drugged.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.22,0:10:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have seen terrible, terrible,\Nterrible violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.38,0:10:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have also recognized,\Nin the course of seeing that violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.30,0:10:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that being in the face of things\Nand seeing actually what's in front of us
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.94,0:10:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the antidote to depression,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.80,0:10:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to a feeling that one\Nis worthless and has no value.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.00,0:10:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because before the "Vagina Monologues,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.00,0:10:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will say that 80 percent\Nof my consciousness was closed off
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.00,0:10:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what was really going on\Nin this reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.86,0:10:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that closing-off closed off\Nmy vitality and my life energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.71,0:10:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What has also happened\Nis in the course of these travels --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.54,0:10:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's been an extraordinary thing --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.10,0:10:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that every single place\Nthat I have gone to in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.01,0:10:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have met a new species.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.45,0:10:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really love hearing about all\Nthese species at the bottom of the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.18,0:11:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was thinking about how being\Nwith these extraordinary people
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.57,0:11:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this particular panel,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.23,0:11:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's beneath, beyond and between,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.00,0:11:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the vagina kind of fits\Ninto all those categories.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.00,0:11:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.49,0:11:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But one of the things\NI've seen is this species --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.00,0:11:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is a species,\Nand it is a new paradigm,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.100,0:11:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it doesn't get reported\Nin the press or in the media
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.66,0:11:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I don't think\Ngood news ever is news,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.72,0:11:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't think people\Nwho are transforming the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.39,0:11:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are what gets the ratings on TV shows.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.29,0:11:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But every single country I have been to --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.34,0:11:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the last six years,\NI've been to about 45 countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.27,0:11:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many tiny little villages\Nand cities and towns --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.35,0:11:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have seen something what I've come\Nto call "vagina warriors."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.12,0:11:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A "vagina warrior" is a woman,\Nor a vagina-friendly man,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.32,0:11:45.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has witnessed incredible\Nviolence or suffered it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.94,0:11:50.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rather than getting an AK-47\Nor a weapon of mass destruction
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.33,0:11:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a machete,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.79,0:11:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they hold the violence in their bodies;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.56,0:11:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they grieve it; they experience it;\Nand then they go out
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.68,0:12:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and devote their lives to making sure\Nit doesn't happen to anybody else.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.94,0:12:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have met these women\Neverywhere on the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.68,0:12:08.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to tell a few stories,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.47,0:12:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I believe that stories are the way\Nthat we transmit information,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.00,0:12:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it goes into our bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.22,0:12:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think one of the things about being\Nat TED that's been very interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.21,0:12:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that I live in my body a lot,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.14,0:12:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't live in my head\Nvery much anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.41,0:12:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is a very heady place.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.24,0:12:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's been really interesting\Nto be in my head
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.71,0:12:29.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the last two days;\NI've been very disoriented --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.45,0:12:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.48,0:12:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I think the world, the V-world,\Nis very much in your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.00,0:12:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a body world, and the species\Nreally exists in the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.85,0:12:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think there's a real significance\Nin us attaching our bodies to our heads,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.18,0:12:45.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that that separation has created a divide
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.32,0:12:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is often separating\Npurpose from intent.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.84,0:12:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the connection between body and head
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.02,0:12:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often brings those things into union.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.74,0:12:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to talk about three\Nparticular people that I've met,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.81,0:13:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vagina warriors, who really\Ntransformed my understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.38,0:13:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this whole principle and species,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.36,0:13:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one is a woman named Marsha Lopez.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.25,0:13:09.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marsha Lopez was a woman\NI met in Guatemala.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.34,0:13:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was 14 years old,\Nand she was in a marriage
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.39,0:13:15.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her husband was beating her\Non a regular basis.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.41,0:13:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she couldn't get out,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.90,0:13:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she was addicted\Nto the relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.05,0:13:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she had no money.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.35,0:13:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her sister was younger than her,\Nand she applied --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.84,0:13:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had a "Stop Rape" contest\Na few years ago in New York --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.00,0:13:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she applied, hoping\Nthat she would become a finalist
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.00,0:13:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she could bring her sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.87,0:13:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She did become a finalist;\Nshe brought Marsha to New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.00,0:13:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that time,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.27,0:13:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we did this extraordinary V-Day\Nat Madison Square Garden,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.98,0:13:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we sold out the entire\Ntestosterone-filled dome --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.07,0:13:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,18,000 people standing up\Nto say "Yes" to vaginas,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.68,0:13:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was really a pretty\Nincredible transformation.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.44,0:13:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she came, and she witnessed this,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.28,0:13:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she decided that she would go back\Nand leave her husband,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.39,0:13:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that she would bring\NV-Day to Guatemala.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.48,0:13:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was 21 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.08,0:14:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to Guatemala and she had sold out\Nthe National Theater of Guatemala.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.29,0:14:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I watched her walk up on stage\Nin her red short dress and high heels,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.75,0:14:11.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she stood there and said,\N"My name is Marsha.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.26,0:14:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was beaten by my husband for five years.\NHe almost murdered me.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.04,0:14:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I left and you can, too."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.56,0:14:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the entire 2,000 people\Nwent absolutely crazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.32,0:14:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a woman named Esther Chávez\Nwho I met in Juarez, Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.84,0:14:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Esther Chávez was\Na brilliant accountant in Mexico City.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.10,0:14:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was 72 years old\Nand she was planning to retire.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.53,0:14:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She went to Juarez\Nto take care of an ailing aunt,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.12,0:14:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the course of it, she began\Nto discover what was happening
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.22,0:14:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the murdered and disappeared\Nwomen of Juarez.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.61,0:14:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She gave up her life; she moved to Juarez.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.36,0:14:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She started to write the stories\Nwhich documented the disappeared women.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.48,0:14:52.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,300 women have disappeared in a border\Ntown because they're brown and poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.12,0:14:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has been no response\Nto the disappearance,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.40,0:14:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not one person\Nhas been held accountable.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.66,0:14:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She began to document it.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.20,0:15:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She opened a center called\NCasa Amiga, and in six years,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.80,0:15:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she has literally brought this\Nto the consciousness of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.19,0:15:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were there a week ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.60,0:15:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when there were 7,000 people\Nin the street, and it was truly a miracle.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.31,0:15:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we walked through the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.18,0:15:15.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people of Juarez, who normally\Ndon't even come into the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.41,0:15:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the streets are so dangerous,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.21,0:15:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,literally stood there and wept,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.85,0:15:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see that other people\Nfrom the world had showed up
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.41,0:15:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for that particular community.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.81,0:15:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's another woman, named Agnes.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.56,0:15:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Agnes, for me, epitomizes\Nwhat a vagina warrior is.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.24,0:15:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met her three years ago in Kenya.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.02,0:15:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Agnes was mutilated as a little girl;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.00,0:15:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was circumcised against her will\Nwhen she was 10 years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.63,0:15:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she really made a decision
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.16,0:15:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she didn't want this practice\Nto continue anymore in her community.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.00,0:15:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when she got older,\Nshe created this incredible thing:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.14,0:15:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an anatomical sculpture\Nof a woman's body, half a woman's body.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.45,0:15:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she walked through the Rift Valley,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.60,0:15:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she had vagina\Nand vagina replacement parts,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.00,0:16:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she would teach girls\Nand parents and boys and girls
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.85,0:16:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what a healthy vagina looks like,\Nand what a mutilated vagina looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.33,0:16:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the course of her travel --
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.00,0:16:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she walked literally for eight years\Nthrough the Rift Valley,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.06,0:16:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through dust, through sleeping\Non the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.35,0:16:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the Maasai are nomads,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.55,0:16:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she would have to find them,\Nand they would move,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.00,0:16:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she would find them again --
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.66,0:16:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she saved 1,500 girls from being cut.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.95,0:16:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in that time, she created\Nan alternative ritual,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.55,0:16:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which involved girls\Ncoming of age without the cut.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.90,0:16:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we met her three years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.00,0:16:33.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we said, "What could V-Day do for you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.94,0:16:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said, "Well, if you got me a jeep,\NI could get around a lot faster."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.58,0:16:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.60,0:16:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we bought her a jeep.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.94,0:16:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the year that she had the jeep,\Nshe saved 4,500 girls from being cut.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.55,0:16:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we said to her,\N"What else could we do for you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.04,0:16:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "Well, Eve,\Nif you gave me some money,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.32,0:16:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could open a house\Nand girls could run away,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.50,0:16:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they could be saved."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.22,0:16:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to tell this little story\Nabout my own beginnings,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.13,0:17:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's very interrelated\Nto happiness and Agnes.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.45,0:17:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a little girl --\NI grew up in a wealthy community;
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.16,0:17:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was an upper-middle class\Nwhite community,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.40,0:17:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it had all the trappings and the looks
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.28,0:17:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a perfectly nice,\Nwonderful, great life.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.26,0:17:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everyone was supposed\Nto be happy in that community,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.91,0:17:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, in fact, my life was hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.52,0:17:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lived with an alcoholic father
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.07,0:17:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who beat me and molested me,\Nand it was all inside that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.00,0:17:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And always as a child I had this fantasy\Nthat somebody would come and rescue me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.00,0:17:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I actually made up a little character\Nwhose name was Mr. Alligator.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.64,0:17:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would call him up\Nwhen things got really bad,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.00,0:17:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say it was time\Nto come and pick me up.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.19,0:17:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would pack a little bag\Nand wait for Mr. Alligator to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.00,0:17:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Mr. Alligator never did come,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.21,0:17:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the idea of Mr. Alligator coming\Nactually saved my sanity
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.70,0:17:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made it OK for me to keep going,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.49,0:17:50.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I believed, in the distance,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.24,0:17:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there would be someone\Ncoming to rescue me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.00,0:17:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cut to 40-some odd years later,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.49,0:17:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we go to Kenya, and we're walking,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.75,0:18:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we arrive at the opening of this house.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.49,0:18:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Agnes hadn't let me come\Nto the house for days,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.93,0:18:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they were preparing\Nthis whole ritual.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.11,0:18:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to tell you a great story.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.72,0:18:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Agnes first started fighting
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.37,0:18:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stop female genital mutilation\Nin her community,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.89,0:18:15.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had become an outcast,\Nand she was exiled and slandered,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.46,0:18:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whole community\Nturned against her.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.51,0:18:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But being a vagina warrior,\Nshe kept going,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.89,0:18:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she kept committing herself\Nto transforming consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.27,0:18:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the Maasai community,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.90,0:18:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,goats and cows are the most\Nvalued possession.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.72,0:18:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're like the Mercedes-Benz\Nof the Rift Valley.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.00,0:18:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said two days\Nbefore the house opened,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.91,0:18:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two different people arrived\Nto give her a goat each,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.80,0:18:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.97,0:18:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I knew then that female genital\Nmutilation would end one day in Africa."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.79,0:18:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, we arrived, and when we arrived,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.51,0:18:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were hundreds of girls\Ndressed in red homemade dresses --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.26,0:18:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the color of the Maasai\Nand the color of V-Day --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.20,0:18:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they greeted us.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.56,0:18:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had made up these songs\Nthat they were singing,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.04,0:19:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the end of suffering\Nand the end of mutilation,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.62,0:19:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they walked us down the path.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.33,0:19:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a gorgeous day in the African sun,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.72,0:19:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the dust was flying\Nand the girls were dancing,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.20,0:19:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was this house, and it said,\N"V-Day Safe House for the Girls."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.75,0:19:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it hit me in that moment\Nthat it had taken 47 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.08,0:19:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that Mr. Alligator\Nhad finally shown up.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.22,0:19:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he had shown up, obviously,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.12,0:19:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a form that it took me\Na long time to understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.54,0:19:30.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is that when we give in the world\Nwhat we want the most,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.68,0:19:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we heal the broken part inside each of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.48,0:19:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I feel, in the last eight years,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.88,0:19:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this journey --\Nthis miraculous vagina journey --
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.00,0:19:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has taught me this really simple thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.83,0:19:47.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is that happiness exists in action;
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.27,0:19:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it exists in telling the truth\Nand saying what your truth is;
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.43,0:19:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it exists in giving away\Nwhat you want the most.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.00,0:19:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I feel that knowledge and that journey
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.00,0:20:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been an extraordinary privilege,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.48,0:20:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I feel really blessed
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.10,0:20:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have been here today\Nto communicate that to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.54,0:20:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.73,0:20:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)