If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all.
Women are still the majority of the world's poor, the uneducated, the unhealthy, the unfed.
We've seen rape used as a tactic of war before in Bosnia, Burma, Sri Lanka and elsewhere.
Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn't matter what country they're in or what religion they claim they all want to control women. They want to control how we dress, they want to control how we act, they even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies.
Too many new mothers are asked to get up and get out after 24 hours and that is just not enough time for many new mothers and babies.
I believe that women's roles and rights are at the forefront of everything we should care about and need to be doing.
Family planning is an important part of women's health and reproductive health includes access to abortion that I believe should be safe, legal and rare.
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, its got about 18 million cracks in it.
88 years ago on this very day, the nineteenth amendment, giving the women the right to vote became enshrined in our constitution. My mother was born before women could vote. My daughter got to vote for her mother for president.
Each of us must truly be a women in the world. We need to be as fearless as the women whose stories you've applauded, as committed as the dissidents and activists you have heard from, as audacious as those who start movements for peace when all seems lost. Together I do believe it is part of the American mission to ensure that people everywhere, women and men alike, finally have the opportunity to live up to their own God given potential.
