Author and spoken-word artist Clementine Von Radics breaks down why every girl needs to hear the story of what it means to be a superwoman.
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00:00 Advice for teenage girls with wild ambitions and trembling hearts.
00:05 When Anne Frank was 13 years old, she disappeared behind a bookcase with her family and everything
00:12 hunted, writing an ocean into a diary when they found her.
00:18 She was treated as nothing more than a spark above a burning bush despite this, she still
00:23 said, "I really believe people are good at heart."
00:27 And when Joan of Arc was 14, she heard a voice calling her to greatness.
00:32 When the doubters called her crazy, she did not listen, grabbed her sword, grabbed her
00:36 shield in her two good hands.
00:38 She was the maid of untamed patriotism born to reunite a country like a broken heart.
00:44 Malala was 15 when a man climbed under her school bus and insisted her sisters name her
00:51 enemy when she did not hide.
00:54 She was shot three times in the temple three years later in an ocean of survival and no
01:00 apology.
01:01 She stood before the United Nations and told them how her country was burning.
01:06 When Mary Shelley was 16, she invented science fiction.
01:11 The story of a man named Frankenstein and his creators, she soon learned little girls
01:16 with big ideas are much scarier than monsters.
01:20 It's okay.
01:22 She was remembered long after they put down their torches.
01:26 Jackie Mitchell was 17 when she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, one right after
01:31 the other.
01:32 Grown men were so afraid of the lightning in her fingertips.
01:36 Two days later, all women were fired from the major leagues because girls are too delicate
01:42 to play baseball.
01:44 Sacagawea was 18 with a baby on her back, leading Lewis and Clark across North America.
01:50 Cleopatra, 18 when she became queen of the Nile.
01:54 Nellie Bly, 18, bringing justice to journalism.
01:58 And you are now 18, standing on the precipice, trembling before your own greatness.
02:05 This, this is your call to leap.
02:08 There will always be those who say you are too young or too delicate to make anything
02:13 happen for yourself, but they don't see the part of you that smolders.
02:18 Don't let their doubting drown out the sound of your own heartbeat.
02:21 You were the first drop of rain in a hurricane.
02:24 Your bravery builds beyond you.
02:26 You are needed by all the little girls still living in secret, riding oceans of monsters
02:31 and throwing like lightning.
02:33 You don't need to grow up to find greatness.
02:36 You are so much stronger than the world has ever even told you you could be.
02:42 The world is waiting for you to set it on fire, trust in yourself, and burn.
02:49 [Music]