I talk about this all the time especially with the young girls I meet because they look at People Like Us in these positions and they think well you must have been born into that place which is the one one of the reasons why when I meet with young girls I don't care where in the world it is I don't want them to know Michelle Obama the former first lady I want them to know Michelle Obama that girl from the south side of Chicago I want to break down that that wall of impossibility to let them
know that I am them and they are me and yes every other moment I feel self-doubt because when you and and Society intentionally does that to women and girls it starts at a very early age we are we question our value our worth we question how we look how we talk where we're from um there are people with power who want us to stay small they want us to stay doubtful and so our cultures reinforce that so the one thing I want young girls to understand is that those feelings are real they are not crazy
they are they are they they are indoctrinated in us all and we carry them around with us our entire lives and I don't care how far you go whether you go to the White House you are constantly batting away those negative messages of being not enough and yes I deal with that too and I don't want young women young girls to get ahead of themselves to think that they have to fix it all now in order to break these cycles of negativity you got to get up every day and do the work right before you
that means getting your education when the opportunity presents itself and then focusing on that doing the work doing your homework getting to the next stage in life because if you take those small steps over time you build up a lifetime of another story for yourself no one can do that for you you have to look over your life and we as women sometimes feel like we have to have done everything right before we can take credit for the things that we have done um but there is power in what we do every day and I
have to remind myself of that every single moment but now that I'm older I can now look back and say yeah I am worthy I have value um but it's not because I'm sitting here I had that value when I was three when I was five when I was seven when I was 12 and for the young girls out there you have it now you just have to take the time to realize it and be patient with yourself as you do it because the process takes a lifetime foreign [Music]