Amy Poehler's speech, thanking Time magazine for naming her one of the year's top 100 most influential people, starts out funny and quickly gets serious:
But tonight, I’m genuinely very humbled and honored to be part of this evening, so I would like to take my remaining minute to um … I have thought very hard and long about what has influenced me over the past couple of years, and since I have been at this dinner in 2008, I have given birth to two boys and I’ve left Saturday Night Live and I started my own TV show, and it’s been a crazy couple of years, and I thought who besides Madam Secretary Clinton and Lorne Michaels have influenced me? And it was the women who helped me take care of my children. It is Jackie Johnson from Trinidad and it is Dawa Chodon from Tibet, who come to my house and help me raise my children. And for you working women who are out there tonight who get to do what you get to do because there are wonderful people who help you at home, I would like to take a moment to thank those people, some of whom are watching their children right now, while you’re at this event. Those are people who love your children as much as you do, and who inspire them and influence them and on behalf of every sister and mother and person who stands in your kitchen and helps you love your child, I say thank you and I celebrate you tonight.
I love seeing a successful woman, particularly a celebrity, acknowledging and thanking the people who help her look after her children. More women need to do this. More men need to do this.
What a gorgeous speech and woman! Amen on more men needing to do this, too!
Posted by: hush | April 29, 2011 at 08:06 PM