Michelle Obama’s incredible speech on what it’s like being a woman

Michelle Obama and husband Barack don’t live in the White House anymore, but the couple is passionate about the politics they believe in; and for Michelle, a huge part of that is protecting and educating fellow women.

The former First Lady of the United States was recently at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in Philadelphia where she took part in a discussion with acclaimed television producer Shonda Rhimes about women’s empowerment. 

Rhimes asked Michelle: “Do you think that women, in general, have less chances to fail? You fail once, people start labelling you faster than they’d label a man ever.”

Michelle responded eloquently and succinctly, as she so often does, and spoke of how “the bar” keeps getting higher and higher for women, making it ever-impossible to achieve. 

She also made an apparent reference to President Donald Trump and “the bar”, saying “And we’re seeing that now, quite frankly, the bar is … I mean …” gesturing with her hand that the bar lately just keeps dropping. “That bar is going places,” Rhimes offered.

The interview got so much attention that JK Rowling, the author and sometimes-controversial queen of Twitter, shared the video and wrote: “There is so much truth in this, it hurts. @MichelleObama on the fools who get free passes to the top table…”

Her followers were quick to praise Obama for her impassioned speech. User Lissa Evans wrote: “She is the epitome of the class act, the role model's role model…,” while Faye Wang replied: “Why isn't she running for office? So powerful! Everyone gets the message even though she didn't mention anyone by name in particular.