And she looked at me, and it was like the successful arm wrestle, and then, after that, she delivered an extraordinary account of what her life really was like.

Ory Okolloh tells the story of her life and her family and how she came to do her heroic work reporting on the doings of Kenya's parliament.

And we heard from Sunitha yesterday, and Kavita about what we do to girls.

What you want to look for here is an incredible discrepancy between horrific events that she describes and her very, very cool demeanor.

You're not jealous, are you? It's terrible.

Will you explain the procedure?

She speaks Chinese.

She overestimated me.

Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.

Poet, writer, activist Eve Ensler lived in her head. In this powerful talk from TEDWomen, she talks about her lifelong disconnection from her body and how two shocking events helped her to connect with the reality, the physicality of being human.

Does she speak French?

She talks a lot.

Reason with her.

And she began to talk about her childhood, when she was beautiful, and she literally turned here she was, in this broken body and she turned to the audience and described herself as the fair demoiselle with her red hair and her light steps and so forth, and then she said, And then puberty hit.

She ever tell you anything about herself?

She's a genuinely sweet person.

She speaks German and French, not to mention English.

I'm a storyteller.

John Maeda on the simple life

And she began to talk about things that had happened to her body and her face, and how she could no longer count on her beauty, and her family then treated her like the ugly sister of the beautiful one for whom all the ballet lessons were given.

Let me talk to her.

She did.

I rather wish she had.

Plank number three Tell your story.

Narrator They took pictures.

Paul Rothemund details DNA folding

I told our story.

She doesn't speak Japanese at home.

Go to speak with her a few words

She promised!

He told me the story of his life.

So let me just start with my story.

I talk about my story.

I will tell you end of story.

They ask questions, listen, and then speak.

She just walked in the door!

They would if they had these corsets on.

She talked of morals and I got mad.

I quote President Clinton when he spoke from this very rostrum

And I remember my very first patient in that series continued to tell me more history during what was meant to be the physical exam visit.

She took care of me as a child, so I'm not talking about statistic now now it's oral history in my family.

Today I am proud to say we have trained and educated over 66 Qatari women filmmakers to edit, tell their own stories in their own voices.

She is also immensely pragmatic.

Her speech was excellent.

She can also speak a little bit of French.