[cheering] its great to be back here. I want to thank president leblanc for welcoming all of us. Our family loves coming here. We were speaking and chelsea was dancing. Not nearly the range we could stay for the weekend to talk about all of them. Its an amazing book and so important to have stories of so many women in one place and people talk about that in a second. So we should get going because we dont have time. The process of the joined by line writing a book or anything else with someone is incredibly rich because of the different experiences and points of view that the coauthor brings to the project and virtual c. And d. If was especially exciting because it comes out of a conversation weve had since she was a little girl talking about people especially women who inspired us. Thats what is so great about iit is the stories are deeply personal. To most of you in some cases across the cultures and generations into geographies and backgrounds its an extraordinary range that youve put together. Now this is one of the kind of superficial questions. You mentioned with a huge amount of affection and exasperation what has it been like to coauthor a book with someone who writes on legal pads, i want to know were there any other challenges working with your archaic mother [laughter] that you would share. There is many students here if you want to share with us. Thankfully her penmanship is legible. I knew my mother wrote in longhand because i had seen her writing process for what happened most recently in her previous books. I had to understand what that would be like for our working dynamic but she edited pen on paper also. I thought she would have at least come to understand why track changes our good friend. She hadnt an had bent and despy efforts to persuade her that this would help us Work Together and we could see the different thought processes i knew there was no way. She knows how to use the computer but no it just wasnt comfortable for her. [laughter] in my defense you know who else writes longhand for his books, barack obama. [applause] im going to turn this a little bit and you will get your chance. Im sure there are many like me and you have daughter that havee love deeply and transcendently but trying to write a book together conjures up images of screeching doors and door slamming. Host we started by making lists and they were in the hundreds. Athletes we admired, entertainers, business leaders, academics, public servants. We had hundreds of names and began to narrow it down and the only back and forth we had in the beginning as i would advocate for the people i wanted to remain on the list. We ended up writing more than 200 essays and our publisher rightly said people have to carry the book around on a scooter or something. [laughter] we cut it back dramatically and that was hard. We have a lot of challenging conversations about who was going to be cut sometimes the editor which makes gestures were chelsea or i would and we would say i dont want her cut. So that was the real problem we had, and we ended up with a Representative Group of figures on the fictional figures, contemporary figures that really did capture what we were trying to convey because at the end of the day we are so grateful to these women and their lives and we wanted them to be seen as whole people. They are not perfect up on a mountain somewhere. They worked hard and overcame obstacles. They are gutsy because they made it clear they were following their dream and had a mission in their lives and that wasnt so we think those stories are good for us to share because we find them so inspirational. One of the things that is interesting is the sort of spam that you cover and you talk about growing up. You had your mom, your sixthgrade teacher, you had i wonder if any women influenced these selections. Guest i dont think i quite understood the juxtaposition of my mom growing up and my mom just reflected how and that was so different then mine growing up so the majority worked outside the homes, some were lawyers, some were nurses, doctors, entrepreneurs. When i was in first grade, our mayor, betty was my incredible pediatrician who took care of me and went on to lead the Childrens Hospital so i had all of these Inspiring Women in my life and also had teachers all throughout the school who were determined not only in history that social studies and science and math are not seen as the province of old, straight white men so im thankful to my teachers that introduced me to. These kind of amazing women that i then write about in gutsy women and may never have known about them but for my teacher so i had such an experience. Guest you were not aware of until this process of that. Does that surprise you . When i began talking about if need be and to realize what a gap there was. In my case, there were women i read about in books or the pages of life magazine. I included several of them because as a child, life magazine was one of the doorways to the world so thats where i read about Amelia Erhardt or the amazing senator who took on joe mccarthy. Wouldnt we like to see that again . [applause] in my element tree and Junior High School years may be studying egypt, part of it was coming to grips with how hungry i was and how encouraging my mother was for me to pursue them and learn more about them that it wasnt my schooling at this point. There is a funny story in the book because i came across helen keller because of a television dramatization of her life into this amazing woman who was taught by dan sullivan to communicate. Fast forward the texas state board of education decided to nominate helen keller and eight from the curriculum i was really upset about telling keller. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed though i hope she has more problems than not because she deserved it. Every week with my mom or when i got old enough and rode my bike. I didnt know anything about the holocaust or what happened. I was probably tenyearsold so thats how i discovered these women and was a different experience between the two of us. Host let lets talk about te definition of snowden. They divide educational pioneers and activists, elected leaders, explorers, inventors and that isnt all of the categories. Within each of the categories are women who work inside the system, outside the system, women who were loud and are not allowed, women who were part of change i mentioned some of the women in the book is they are failures. Mathematicians, astronomers. Problem solvers, you make it may not recognize who fought to clean up the water in michigan. They helped devoted therapies and then her sisters and resistors to project, king you may remember in saudi arabia they fight for a womans right to drive. One of my favorites in the buck has risked life arm and lynn for tens of thousands of displaced people in somalia and the list goes on. What is the common denominator of a gutsiness . It also had to be a visible reaction when we thought about not including you. It is so evident in all of these womens lives because they were not only sort of driven to their own purpose and sometimes it was defined as their families and other school were sometimes a Global Community and so all of the characteristics you mentioned particularly persistence which i feel is one of the Core Competencies for any life well lived are just kind of embedded and embedded in the gut these women demonstrated and continue to demonstrate because changing the status quo wasnt just for themselves. It was for everyone. That is the key factor because there are so many women that we admire but as we were narrowing the list down, we were looking for what it was about that womans life, her work, her advocacy, her mission that affected others and it became once we started talking about it a key ingredient in by someone that has been privileged to meet some of the women assess chelsea. When you meet someone like this very modest looking woman who stood up against the Islamic Terrorist Group in somalia when she opened up her form, predominantly women and children but sought refuge demanded she turned over to them and she stood her ground and refused and basically compounded then by shaming them why are you even here. Shes the most unimposing person but the story of her continuing support now supported by two of her daughters were also physicians, that stuck with me and i have so many stories about a Great Organization that highlights women like her around the world. I wanted to introduce the readers to more of these women because everybody get discouraged about the Larger Society and those that were willing to take the risk and women today who said something is wrong with these children. I am a pediatrician, but she wouldnt stop talking abou about even the people tried to dismiss her so that is the characteristic of just determination, persistence on behalf of others not just themselves. Youve just mentioned her system and this is part of a required ingredient is optimism that even in the face of incredible challenges many of these women have faced a. If they didnt believe that their kind of energies couldnt make a difference they wouldnt have persisted and that is a powerful example that needs to be optimistic in the world. Listening to my mom i was thinking about the Largest Group that we write about, the vaccinators. The workforce and millions of women who kind of everyday work to inoculate children against everything from weasels to pouliot to the courageous frontline workers and those that try to vaccinate everyone and hundreds of lives have been lost in the last six years and more and more people continue to rise up but they know how important it is to child health and equal shot at life and we know in our own country that isnt always the case. I im going to periodically china and with a question. This is directed towards you. When you are not feeling your most confident or bold, what do you do to feel gutsiness and this is from alex this has also parenthetically ps i love you. [laughter] i think about you, alex, wherever you are. I want to be serious about this because part of the impetus for the buck is going chelsea was bitinwriting her wonderful chils book she persisted and would need so many kids that would go to their parents but when i was doing my book signing before the campaign and afterwards with my book what happened, some of the young kids would say who are your heroes, who do you look up to and i found that such a poignant question because its easy to be torn down in todays world. We all have our faults. Who can you look up to and be inspired by . When im a little down or discouraged about the state of the world, i spend time thinking about some of the people both women and men who inspired the. We have two groups of women in this book have taken on the scourge of gun violence. We are so moved by sarah bradys husband was shot and wising sarah never expect it to be an advocate against all of the gun violence that we see or whose son was murdered and now is in congress and our dear friend Gabby Giffords who survived an assassination attempt and kept going. Anna green was murdered at sandy hook. When i think about the people that face those kind of unspeakable, unimaginable tragedies it gets me going. You might want to talk about some of the young women thats with me. You can get he give her a roundf applause. [applause] we write about the these incredible young women who are standing against the nra and awareness of death by suicide with a gun frequently and so just to echo my mom, how can we not do everything we could do a. Oif the congresswoman can get up every day and work to ensure that no parent has to endure what she does, how can we not honor the, or Sabrina Fulton whose running them if you want to contribute this will be the only superpower typical thing i say, may be. [laughter] please consider contributing to the campaign of Sabrina Fulton running as the miamidade commissioner. [applause] what right do we have to pity or feel like we are not doing everything we possibly are if these extraordinary courageous, her like one in can find it in themselves to fight for a different future that was brought from their children. Sabrina wrote a fabulous book a few years ago with his father that is so worth reading, it is excellent. Good for her which brings me to another audience question, chelsea, im going to bring it to you. Youve watched your mother entered the world of politics and all that has come with a. Of the questioa. The question is what would you recommend to a young girl wanting to be in office. You mentioned a member that catapulted into office because of personal tragedies or events that were not being addressed by the bodies of congress and other local governments. What would you tell a younger girl and you also encourage kids to get involved, becoming engaged, learning how to advocate. Thank you for this moment in time. I know that theres this kind of belief that young people and not so young people look at whats happening in the world at large and become kind of overwhelmed by it or look at what anyone of steps into the arena has to end or online at offline and kind of this belief that maybe people will stop running for office when weve had unprecedented numbers not only running for congress but also running for county commissioner or state legislature so i would hope if this is something you feel called to do, think about what you want to change because if you are interested in criminal justice reform, run for state legislature. The vast majority are sitting in state prisons were local jails or unaccountable sheriff jails. Think about thank you for the people that responded to that. Think about what you want to change in ho and how best to eqp yourself to become competent and qualified to make the change and then run for office. A lot of groups help. I have an Organization Called onward together and we support groups of Young Political activists recruiting thousands to run through all kinds of office or emerge america that focuses its energy on women running for office or color of change with the collective pack. When you make that decision you need to learn what that means and how best to go about it. You can give support to people who want to be part of the campaign. I have a question about what they teach us that you also see a book cover here and the photograph is fascinating. Because they often go unnamed, unrecognized and i think that this photo explains why and im wondering if you can tell us a little bit. Which by the way, it has been reprinted all over the place and is well known to people this was thought to have been a snapshot after the attack on pearl harbor yet thanks to a library in is still interactive. She wanted to know more about this iconic photograph. She realized it actually is from 1941, its a Training Exercise of the women at pearl harbor who comprised and she was forced to identify. We know their names kathryn,. She not only correct that the history of the photographs but also was able to give a name to these women who were practicing and later we know were called to help after the attack. Its an interesting story that this photograph represents because when i was growing up, basically i was taught there were no women firefighters. I never saw any yet this was 1941 and they are in a Training Exercise because they are firefighters. I dont want to become a want people to understand we go in cycles, millions during world war ii in the workforce. They were in factories, and offices. Thats something that affected the lives of more than half of the American Families in the country. After the war it was thought okay we need to get back to way thatheway that it was before, ge these jobs and women need to go back home and the family. These kind of cycles was the passage of title ix, the legislation that made it possible not just an academic Spot Athletics for women to have the same rights to study and pursue sports. Think about this. Before title ix and the women who are the godfathers of it, edith green and an academic, so before title ix there were several good women in the United States in school who played soccer. Now there are nearly 400,000. When we were writing this we were really motivated because of the World Cup Team because they all benefited from title ix and not only di did they put stars n other nations teams had come to the United States to play intercollegiate soccer at our universities and if they were to benefiting so there i am to all of this is part of it is to make sure we dont go backwards, that we dont have rights ripped away from women and girls standing in the way of young women succeeding. I did book signing in union square and we had to cut off a thousand people were telling us their stories. I had two different women who said im in finance in the city and its so rough. Its so hard and seems to be even harder now. Part of this is to book everybody up and say we are not going to give up or allow the handmaids tale. [applause] i also think that those of us who were not alive when title ix was passed and i dont generally think of it i as affecting spors it is to understand the broad affect it had on academics and research and one of the women we write about is there a ruben concerned as it is one of the inexplicable misses because she helped solidify the proof of without dark matter which is the majority of our universe into thats about all i understand about dark matter. [laughter] when she graduated from college, she really wanted to go to the program at princeton and they said they didnt accept women. It wouldnt change for decades. Sometimes we become we have come so much further than we have and weve made more progress over the time horizon and it is reflected in the record yet of course if you look at the statistics we have made so much progress is just important that we not such a big mistake progress for success. One more thing about title ix because i benefited in a way that you didnt. Its not that big of an age difference. I just want to remind all of you a big just pass and everything was running a. Had to be enforced on so many campuses for decades afterwards. There was a big argument that means the guys cant play football or wrestling or whatever and it was just an assumption and we shouldnt forget that because it really was hard. You mentioned most of them, and frank, the number of spoken truth to power and shes going to integrate her school at 6yearsold and one was sh