And society broadly. We are grateful for this partnership and the impact the institute has had on communities near and far and now i would like to welcome to the stage will moderate tonights conversation coowner of politics and prose bookstore serving as secretary clintons chief speechwriter she is currently working on a book to be published by Penguin Press called hillary land. Please welcome her to the stage. [applause] are you ready for some gutsy women . [applause] i think i know a couple are ready for you. So first on behalf of the entire staff of politics and prose and especially our Extraordinary Events team, we would like to say all our friends and partners so i will be moderating the conversation with our special guest Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Rodham clinton. We are talking about their book the book of gutsy women i have been asked to remind all of you that you will get your copy at the end of the event if you go downstairs there will be a copy waiting for you. Dont forget to pick them up. I just want to mention i first met hillary and chelsea in 1993. Chelsea was 13 years old. Lets just say it was quickly apparent she was the most eloquent and poised and smartest teenager in the history of teenagers. [laughter] it doesnt surprise anyone who is watch her grow into a remarkable woman that she is today. And advocate around the world for women and girls a promoter of civic dialogue and engagement in a powerful voice from saving our planet from Climate Change the Columbia School of health and is a prolific author who has cobra in a book on Global Health and six Children Books of her own all testaments to her profound commitment to diversity and inclusion human rights and social justice. Her good work is informed and inspired in no small measure by the role of three small children and also has been inspired by the woman who will be on stage with her tonight her coauthor speaking of whom is there a good seer woman then Hillary Rodham clinton . [cheers and applause] the trailblazing transformational first lady of the United States the twoterm us senator from new york secretary of state global champion for women and girls in human rights and democracy the first woman ever to be the nominee of a Major Political party for president of the United States. [applause] and i just have to offer a quick reminder about the 2016 president ial election. Because no one should ever ever ever forget that Hillary Clinton won nearly 66 million votes. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] and lets just not forget which was more than the man who currently occupies the white house. And to be clear even with a certain russian dictator putting his thumb on the scales. [cheers and applause] so by my calculations that means today at least 66 million americans are certain the white house to be in much better shape right now if a woman such as her were in it. [cheers and applause] and isnt it amazing donald trump just cant get over it. But i digress. Hillary clinton is here tonight wearing a different hat as heroic author who has written six previous books including major bestsellers and i have a sneaking feeling when you see the book youll understand why this may be the most special of all. Please join me to welcome mother and daughter and coauthors of the book of gutsy women Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Rodham clinton. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] hello. Agreed to be back here at gw program want to think the gw president for welcoming us and our family coming here we were just talking backstage both my husband and chelsea as well as myself have been here numerous times on the stage chelsea was dancing while she was in the washington ballet. I was never a star. But is just great to be here and always be with you. We have done this in various combinations it so fun and such an honor for me. First thank you on behalf of womankind. [applause] to think the frustration tonight is that we can only talk about so many of them. Not the range that we want to. But it is an amazing book its important to have stories of so many women in one place. And we should get going we dont have a ton of time but and we wrote this book to gather we would say you have a joint byline so how did you decide whose name went first . [laughter]. Age before beauty obviously. That process of having a joint byline of writing a book or anything with someone else is incredibly rich because of the different experiences and points of view that your coauthor brings to the project and for chelsea and me it was especially exciting because the book comes out of a conversation we have had literally since she was a little girl with people especially women who inspired us. Thats whats so great about it that they are so deeply personal across cultures and generations and geographies and backgrounds. It is an extraordinary range that you put to gather. So now just one other superficial question, sorry but you mentioned with a huge amount of affection and a hint of exasperation what this has been like to coauthor a book with someone who still writes in longhand on legal pads so im just wondering if there are any other challenges working with your archaic mother. [laughter] that you would care to share with the students . Thankfully her penmanship is legible unlike my fathers. I knew my mother wrote in longhand because i have seen her writing process happen most recently with her previous book. But i didnt understand what that would be like for our working dynamic. Not only does she write longhand but she edits on pen on paper to perk i thought surely she would have at least come to understand why track changes are our friend. [laughter] but yet she had not and despite all of my efforts to persuade her this would help us Work Together to see the different thought process and go back and forth on the document there was no way we could do a shared document maybe track changes. She does know how to use a computer but no. It was not comfortable for her. Okay. In my defense do you know who else writes longhand . Barack obama. I rest my case. Maybe he is a dinosaur also. [laughter] i will turn the tables so you will get your chance. There are many women in the room who have daughters we love deeply that mothers and tender on daughters write a book together that conjures images of screaming and door slamming some were there any surprises for you working with your daughter . We started by making lists and honestly they were in the hundreds of entertainers we admired, business leaders, athletes, academics, pc servants. We had many hundreds of names. We began to try to narrow it down back and forth the only back and forth is i would advocate for the people i wanted to remain on the list she would do the same we would compromise sometimes i would say no i have to have her in and chelsea would say i have to have her in. So we would write 200 essays and our publisher rightly said people have to carry the book around on the scooter. So we cut dramatically and that was hard me had allied challenging conversations about sometimes the editor would make suggestions or i would so that was the only real problem we had we had a very Representative Group of historic figures contemporary figures that really did capture what we tried to convey because at the end of the day we are so grateful to these women and to their lives they are not perfect they are not on a mountain somewhere they work hard to overcome obstacles they made it clear they were following their dream and it was not easy. We think those stories were good ones to share because we find them some inspirational. Lead is interesting is the span that you cover with the differences growing up you had very few. Your sixthgrade teacher mrs. King Amelia Ehrhardt joe in that all women and nancy drew you had the mayor of little rock not huge numbers but a few more women that were brought up in your classes in school but how does that generational difference experiencing changing gender roles . I dont think i quite understood the juxtaposition between my mom growing up and my growing up with regards to the women role models until we started this effort and my mom reflected the only woman she knew were School Teachers in the public librarians and that was just so different than mine growing up the vast majority of my friends moms worked at home some were lawyers some were nurses or doctors or entrepreneurs and you mentioned when i was in first grade our mayor, a woman or my incredible pediatrician and later went on to lead the Childrens Hospital so i have these very visible women in my life and also the teachers who all throughout school were determined not only history but social studies and math were not just old straight white man i am so thankful to a teachers who introduced me to grace hopper or these amazing women that i write about and i might not have known about them but for me teachers in such a different experience. That you were not aware until this process. And talking about it we realized what a gap there was because in my case there were women that i read about in books because as a child life magazine was one of the doorways to the world. Thats where i read about Amelia Ehrhardt or the amazing Margaret Chase smith. And who took on joe mccarthy. [applause] thats how i met the women very much in my elementary and Junior High School years that talked about women. Maybe in ancient egypt and then coming to grips with how hungry i was and how encouraging my own mother was to but it wasnt part of my schooling in fact there is a funny story in the book because i came across helen keller because of the television dramatization of her life in this amazing woman who was taught by and sullivan to communicate. Fastforward last year the texas state board of education decided to eliminate helen keller and me from the curriculum. I was really upset about helen keller being eliminated. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed. And i talk about the Public Library every week id go with my mom or i rode my bike the library and said read this new book its about this young girl named anne frank. I didnt know anything about the holocaust or what happened. I was ten years old. That is how i discovered these women and as chelsea and i were talking about it was a very different experience for the two of us. Talk about the definition of gutsy and you should all know in with those inventors and within each of those categories and those who were allowed are not loud those that were part of change you could not cross reference in. And in those common years. Mathematicians and astronomers like grace hopper. Problem solvers. Who is the doctor who fought to clean up the water in flint michigan. And treats hiv and hepatitis and then the suffragettes Billie Jean King. And you may remember the woman in saudi arabia who fought for the right to drive. Against incredible odds for tens of thousands of displaced people so what is the common denominator in all these women . What were the metrics with the 103 women in this book . And that visceral reaction but it is so evident in all these womens lives not only driven by their own purpose and to make the world a better place. Sometimes it was defined as their family or school or community or a global community. So all the characteristics that you mentioned as one of the core competencies. That are embedded in the gutsy this. And that is the key because there are so many women we admire but as we narrowed the list down we were looking for what it was about that womans life, her work, advocacy, mission that affect others. And it came with a key ingredient and privileged that when you meet someone like a very modest woman doctor who stood up against the Islamist Terrorist Group in somalia when she opened her farm to shelter 19000 women and children who sought refuge and they demanded that she turned it over to them and she stood her ground and refused him basically confronted them by shaming them. What are you young men doing . Why are you even here . Why are you fighting . And is the most unimposing person but the story of that confrontation but all of these that are now supported by her two daughters who are also physicians. I have so many personal stories and then to highlight and part of what i want to do is introduce our readers to more of these women because everybody gets a little discouraged in Larger Society historic figures and to stand up and speak out and women like today when the pediatrician there is something wrong. She would not quit talking about it. And adjust determination and persistence and this is part of a required ingredient is optimism. With those incredible challenges that many women face they are suddenly optimistic. If they dont believe their energies are married to their tenant they would not have persisted. That such a powerful example of what it means to be optimistic in the world and listening to my mom arguably the Largest Group of women we wrote about artifacts and eaters the vaccination within the workforce who every day would work to inoculate children to the courageous workers those that are desperately trying to vaccinate against ebola. Just in the last six years but yet more and more people continue to rise up and do that work to the optimism of their own community to give them an equal shot at life that anybody would and should want. We have a lot of questions from the audience. When you are not feeling your most confident what do you do to feel gutsy . Ps i love you. [laughter]. They meet so many little kids with their parents. Would i was out doing my book signing, both before the 2016 campaign and then afterwards with what happened. So many young kids, would see who are your heroes who you look up to. And i found that such a poignant question because it is easy to be torn down in todays world will have our flaws, will have clay feet and we are all far from perfect. So who are the people that you can look up to and that you can be inspired by. Would little down, or discouraged the state of the world i just its been time thinking about some of the people both women and men, and young people. Of inspired me. With two groups of women in this book who take on the scourge of gun violence. We are so moved by sara brady, whose husband was shot would president reagan was confronted by an attempted assassination and was paralyzed and never expected to be an advocate all of the gun violence that we see but she became one. Son was murdered and now shes in congress and her dear friend debbie gifford, who survived an assassination attempt. I kept going. And someone like mel but marty is green, this little girl was murdered at as andy hook. Would i think about people who have faced those kinds of just unspeakable and unimaginable tragedies, because we going again. He is me up. With tensions that you might want to talk about the young women because one of them is here with us. It really she just celebrated her 18th birthday. You can give julia a front of applause. [applause] we write about julia and Emma Gonzales and others. These incredible young women who are standing up against an ra but standing for Animal Research and sensible gun violence prevention legislation. Awareness about the crisis tragically including in people. Death by suicide, with the gun pretty frequently. And so just to echo one of my mom news kind of think how can we then not do everything that we can continue do. If congressman women lucy can get up every day and work to ensure that no parent confronts what she did. Would her son jordan was murdered. How can we not honor that everyday. Sabrina felton is now running. [applause]. If you want to contribute, this will be the only super political thing ill see, maybe. [laughter]. If you kinda wanted to contribute to cut competitive competitive. Please consider contributing to the campaign of Sabrina Felton who is running for miamibased commissioner. [applause]. What right do we have 2penny or never feel like we should not be doing everything we can possibly be doing. It wouldbe extraordinary courageous heroic women confided in themselves to fight very different future that was rocked from their children. Sabrina felton on a fabulous book a few years ago. It is so worth reading. Its really excellent. If her right. Which brings me to another audience question chelsea. Im going to give it to you. You watched your mother enter the world of politics and all that has come that went out and all of the incoming is, that. And the question is what would you recommend to a young girl wanting to be you just mentioned it again women into office because im a personal tragedy. They were being addressed by the body of congress. What would you tell a young girl. It. You for and about also encouraging great kids do you get involved in becoming engaged. Learning how to advocate. One, thank you for thinking about it. At this moment in time. I know there is this belief that young people may be not so young people kind of looked at what is happened in the world at large and become overwhelmed by a door look at what if anyone steps into indoor online and offline in this belief the baby people stop running for office. Thankfully we have had an unprecedented of people running for offices. Not only running for congress but also running for county commissioner or city council and the legislature. So i would just hope that if this is something you feel called to do. I think about what you want to change. If you are really interested in in criminal justice reform. Around for legislature. A lot of people are sitting in in jail. An unaccountable something abo about. So thank you for the people for whom responded to that. [laughter]. Something about what you want to change. And how best to equip yourself to be confident qualified to help make the change. Then around for office. I have an organization and we support groups of young, political activists who are recruiting candidates like brent for something which is done an amazing job recruiting thousands of people to around for all kinds of offices who are emergent american who focuses this energy on women running for offi