Barack Obama: “That's why so many of us are here today, because of the women who came before us who were determined to see us sit in…”

“That's why so many of us are here today, because of the women who came before us who were determined to see us sit in the high seats. Women who reached for the balance and raised families and traveled long, lonely roads to be the first in the boardroom or in the courtroom or on the battlefield or on the factory floor. Women who cracked and shattered those glass ceilings so that my daughters and all of our sons and daughters could dream of a bigger and reachable height.”