This morning, we watched Hillary Clinton`s concession speech, prefaced with the idea that you can be incredibly smart, very successful, and hard-working (and deeply flawed), and still experience failure on a big level – and that how you respond matters.

After, when the class was asked what the important things that they heard were, one of our grade 6 girls raised her hand and said, “That girls still matter.“ 

Needless to say, this broke my heart.

I`m reposting here, for truth, Michelle Obama`s speech delivered last month in response to Trump`s recurring denigration of women.

Her words still matter – maybe matter even more, now.  And indeed, Emma, girls still matter.