Would you make me some scrambled egg?
Yeah. I'll make you scrambled eggs.
-You want cheese? -Yeah, a little bit of cheese.
I love cooking with my kids because I think it's such a good way
to teach them patience, a little bit of chemistry
and a lot of math.
You think, like, cooking sort of is a metaphor?
Because, I mean, to some extent
it's kind of like raising kids, don't you think?
I mean, you do the best you can. It's not gonna be perfect.
Yeah. I mean,
but there are times if, like, you use salt when you should've used sugar…
-Yeah. -…where you have to start over.
I think also part of being a parent is helping your kids understand
that even if they work really hard, they may not be the best at something.
-Exactly. -But they can still love it.
They can still enjoy it.
You know, being a parent is, like, the best thing I ever did
and the hardest thing I ever did.
I'm glad you still feel that way
-standing next to me. -I do.
The relationship between, you know, mothers and daughters is
both the most extraordinary, close, wonderful relationship,
but also fraught because, you know,
you want so much to both protect and nurture
but, at the same time,
-create an independent person. -Well--
It's really hard.
I don't think our relationship was ever fraught.
Well, you were a teenager. I do remember that.
Okay. Action shot.
You've got a lot of women who know how to work their ovaries.
I'm--
This is family. We are a family.
Oh, my gosh.
There's something about turning the pages of an album,
I just have to tell ya, that I love.
-So great. -I just love it.
There is your grandmother, my mother, Dorothy, holding you.
And there-- We cut off my poor dad
but he's there, you know, leaning on his cane.
And then,
when I look at these great pictures from when you were born, you know,
you just think about what an amazing, overwhelming responsibility it is
when that baby's handed to you.
When all of a sudden,
you now are responsible for this, you know, new, tiny person.
And it was a pretty daunting responsibility, and--
Although I remember you always telling me when I was a little girl
-that we were gonna figure it out… -Yes.
…and also that, you know, it might take a moment
because you had not been a mom before
-and I hadn't been a baby before. -That's right.
I think that was really important for me to hear growing up,
and I think that helped me when I became a parent.
-It was a constant balancing act… -Yes.
…like so much of parenting is
and so much of, you know, mothering a daughter is.
Oh, my gosh. There we are voting together.
When your dad was running for president.
-This was, like, 1992. -'92. Yep.
Having been in the public eye,
I did everything I could to protect you from scrutiny,
but I also didn't wanna isolate you from it.
So trying to strike that right balance--
And that balance and those dynamics inevitably shifted over time.
Yeah.
You know, being a mom is one of the gutsiest things you can do,
and I think these mothers and daughters that we're talking to
have a lot to teach us.
That's certainly true for Goldie Hawn and her daughter Kate Hudson.
You know, Goldie knows all about the challenges
of navigating a public life.
Early on in her own career as an actor, she struggled with depression and anxiety.
I couldn't go out into public without being sick.
I was suddenly somebody, and I didn't even know who I was yet.
So I went to a doctor.
She started meditating, which helped a lot,
and she even created a nonprofit
that teaches kids strategies for coping with stress.
And I love that Kate shares not only her mom's acting talent
but also her commitment to taking care of her physical and mental well-being.
We're gonna talk to them about their mother-daughter relationship
and how do you instill confidence and resilience and optimism.
I also admire how Goldie and Kate bond over their love of dancing,
a love that I share.
It's such a fun expression of mind-body balance,
and they are inviting us onto the dance floor.
Mommies and daughters.
-So lovely to see you. -Hi, honey.
Oh, God.
So, what have you gotten us into over here?
I'm feeling a lesson coming on.
I was saying to Mom, I'm so happy you guys agreed to tango because--
-Oh, are you kidding? She was thrilled. -I mean-- I was thrilled.
I mean, I will always say yes to a dance lesson,
and I also haven't had a tango lesson in probably ten years, so it's time.
Well, this is so great.
Just want to say, if you wanna talk about relationships,
this is what I've done with my mother since I was a little girl.
She leaves things places.
And I'm like, "Oh. There's Mom's jacket."
By the end of any time we're out, I'm holding all of her stuff.
Glasses, the keys. "Where's the keys to my car?"
I got 'em, Mom. I got your keys.
I'd like to say she's lying, but she's not.
All right. We're ready. Okay.
Tell us what to do.
Argentine tango. It is about partnership, so it's gonna be always 100% of each side.
The passion is just part of tango.
It has the connection. It has trust. You have to let go.
When we start something, we need a structure. Right?
If I want to lead, my left hand is gonna be outside. Okay?
One, two.
And we dance in a box.
And then the specifics of the lead. If there is a will, there is a way.
You know what you wanna do, make it happen.
-All right. Do you wanna lead, Mom? -No, I want you to lead.
What's happening? Okay.
Let's go to the side this time.
-To the ri-- -This way.
You're just doing whatever I'm telling you to do.
I also just got usurped.
-How'd you lead each other? -That's interesting.
I was leading, and then my mom got a little bored.
Then she turned me.
That's what happened to me. I was leading, then Mom was like, "Okay."
"I want you to lead, but only for about 20 seconds."
-Yeah, right? -Exactly.
Now that you got a really good hang of it,
I think it's time for you to dance with Carlos.
So, you're sitting in the seats.
-Waiting for someone to come and ask us. -And he's gonna come and ask you.
-Oh, I see. -There you go.
I think she's gonna be the first one.
He picked me.
Mom.
Love it.
-She's a natural. -She is a natural.
-Bravo. That was good. -Yay! That was so great.
I'm so proud of you.
-You all wanna go outside? -Yes.
Such a beautiful day.
We were talking during the dance lesson about how important it is to move
and sort of lose yourself.
You literally become, you know, one with yourself,
which helps us into understanding what mindfulness is.
So, it's the one thing that we wanna be aware of as a parent, you know,
is that emotional contagion is real.
So, children feel what you're feeling.
And how to be tuned into your kids.
I mean, I know my mom being attuned to me gives me an opportunity
-to witness my own emotional state. -That's a-- Yeah.
But how did you two navigate your wanting to be an actress,
your wanting to be in the same profession where your mom had been so successful?
I think I was, like, 11-- or 10, even, when I was like,
"Mom, I'm gonna be an actress."
She's like, "Okay."
-"Slow down. Go to your room." -"And go back to fifth grade."
"And go back to fifth grade."
But what you did do is
that she allowed me an opportunity to audition for something. What she--
-Do you remember what that was? -Yes.
It was-- It was a sitcom with Howie Mandel.
-You're kidding. -Wow.
Yeah, and Mom, didn't tell me this,
but I actually ended up getting the part.
-What did you tell her? -They wanted her.
-Did you tell her she didn't get it? -Oh, yeah.
"They went to someone else," and, you know, "It's fine."
And kind of, like, gave me a little taste to then just wanna go back and be a kid.
I really wanted her to have as normal a life as she could have
up until her graduation.
Other than that, I let it go.
No more controlling anything.
-It doesn't mean it's easy. Doesn't mean-- -Doesn't mean it's easy.
-That you always agree. -No. We know that very well.
We learn our ways, right?
And then, when you do need to say something that you need to say,
you say it, but not all the time…
-Not-- Yeah. -…because it doesn't help anything.
I came out with a lot of "guts."
It's been my journey to be more mind and heart.
Because I know, as I have built businesses or I'm working on a set,
we all come with something really powerful.
And what I like to tell young girls, especially, like, in leadership positions,
is that leadership doesn't look one way.
It's a giant rainbow of different personalities and strengths
that can come together to create something really powerful.
You know, that's as gutsy as, I think, stepping out onto a stage.
-You are so cute. -You wanna party.
Hillary's like, "Let's move."
Let's watch out.
Mom collision.
-These are pictures that I love… -Oh, my gosh. You're so cute.
…of my mother and me.
-You're so cute. -Yeah, I am. Look at me.
But why didn't you ever dress me up like that?
You would never have stood for it.
You were very particular, even at a young age,
about what I could put on you.
This is my mother graduating from high school.
Which is really an extraordinary achievement for your mom
-'cause her grandparents kicked her out. -Right.
Basically, she was abandoned and deserted by--
-By her parents, then her grandparents. -Yeah.
You know, looking at my mother, as I learn more about her life,
it was just really incredibly impressive how hard she worked at being a mother,
'cause she didn't have one of her own.
But that's the difference between mothers and mothering, right?
Yeah.
'Cause if you're really mothering someone, you never give up on them.
That brings to mind Ceyenne, who has in effect mothered a lot of kids
who've been kicked out of their own houses because they're gay or they're trans
or they feel that there's no future for them. Community.
She's created a family of choice.
-Right. Not a family of birth, but-- -A family of choice.
Well, hello. I hear there's a party back here.
-How are you? Come on. Yeah, def-- -You've got so many back here.
-Hi, everybody. -Got some friends.
-Hi. -Hi.
-I'm Twinkle. Nice to meet you. -Good to meet you.
-This was one of my students. -Nice to meet you.
-You're kidding. Oh, my gosh. -Yes. I was a student at Mailman. Yes.
That's so great.
When Dorcas called me and said, "My professor is Chelsea,"
-I said, "We doin' something right." -Yeah.
Ceyenne started GLITS in 2015.
It's an inclusive community housing program for trans youth,
who experience homelessness at alarming rates.
And what she does is about so much more than putting a roof over someone's head.
It's not helping them if we're just giving them a MetroCard and an HIV test.
Let's get them to where they need to be.
Education. It starts there.
I met her when I didn't have my high school diploma.
I'm graduating in the fall,
and I'm hoping to go to Columbia or Georgetown with her help.
-She wants to be a lawyer. I support that. -Yes!
And her, she stood out so smart.
She's now on her way of her master's and PhD.
-What'll you get your PhD in? -Social welfare.
-Her encouragement meant a lot, didn't it? -Absolutely. Yeah.
Her encouragement and her gentle threats.
It was all of that.
I consider being a mom a powerful thing.
I have children all over the world that I adore and love.
Often we were not invited to Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter,
the things that most people celebrate with their families,
so me being a mom allows me to create all those moments
to make up for decades of not being able to have that.
Often people like me run away from home, we're unsupported,
because we choose to seek our authentic lives in this world.
But what would happen if we had parents
who supported us through that journey, right?
And so, this is what she fills in
for a lot of the young people who cross her path.
-It's really a parenting role. -It is.
You can't teach lessons to younger people
unless you teach them the path you had to go to get there.
Right.
I left home when I was a teenager.
I didn't necessarily not have my mom.
I had my mom with conditions.
Conditions I wasn't willing to barter on,
and that was my self-expression, who I was.
I was suicidal half my life. I couldn't avoid that.
Flawless Sabrina,
she was a person that helped me as a young person struggling
and going through gender identity.
Well, my mother calls me Jack, but I work under the name of Sabrina,
and all the queens all call me Sabrina.
Having Flawless as a transgender mom,
she was beneficial in keeping me alive.
When I was homeless and living, literally, in Central Park,
she seen me in the park, and she said, "Get up."
And I said, "I'm not going with you."
And she said, "Yes, you are. Get your bags. Come."
And when we went in the building, the door was open.
But she said, "My door stays open. You'll know this.
I never lock my door, so somebody like you can always walk through it."
Wow. Had you ever met her before?
No. And then she did the most effective thing,
to take me back to my mom's house and explain gender identity to my mom.
How many people were willing to take that time
to explain to a phobic parent
this is no reason to throw your child out?
I would take these lessons from her and give it to all of them.
She gave me the familial love. It was the first time I ever experienced that.
There's nothing more transformative than that.
Like, when I was a young trans girl of 15 years old
running around the streets of San Francisco,
you were a sex worker, or you were pretty enough to be a performer.
These things like getting a nine-to-five job
and pursuing a degree were not options.
So, by me doing this, somebody can see and think, "I can do this too."
-'Cause you're making it visible. -'Cause I'm making it visible.
When she didn't even believe in herself, I believed in her.
I believe in all of these babies.
Now that me and my mom are in sort of a good place…
still a little angry about it,
but let me tell you.
We had a party, and my mom was so confused.
There was the gender nonconforming, there was everybody here.
And my mother, God bless her cute, old behind, she said,
"Well, I'm transgender."
And I said, "Ma." She said, "I know. I just wanted to say it."
And in that moment, all was forgiven.
These are great pictures from when you were about 12.
In the White House.
Look. You're already as tall as I am.
I find that deeply disturbing.
That was a really big moment for me, I have to say.
I think I made you stand back-to-back with me…
-You did. Yes, you did. -…for anyone who was around.
That's so sweet.
So great.
It's so interesting the way children at age 12, 13,
they wanna know where their place is,
and the first place is your family.
And mothers go to the ends of the Earth
to make sure that they have what their children need.
That's why I wanna speak with Meriam Al Sultan.
She's a mother from Saudi Arabia
who found herself stuck in a turbulent marriage,
and she was learning to be a magician
in a country where performing magic was forbidden
and where a lot of important aspects of women's lives are still decided
by male guardians.
She made a decision to leave with her daughter,
-taking her daughter away… -I mean, talk about a gutsy decision.
…from everything she had known
to give her daughter more options, right?
Well, to give her daughter the chance to pursue whatever dream she may have,
whether it was in magic or something else.
-Whatever else. -Whatever else.
Maybe they'll teach us some tricks.
I don't know if they'll reveal anything.
I don't know. We'll have to find out.
There we go.
"Step up. Artemis the Owl."
"Say the magic words to enter"?
Abracadabra?
Open sesame?
Look at you, Mom.
All right. Here we go.
"Invisible Irma invites you to join her in the piano room."
I feel like I should be, like, processing.
Oh, wow!
Since she was a little girl, Meriam has been practicing magic,
a passion she continued pursuing after moving to the United States in 2013.
-Hi, Meriam and Judy. -Welcome.
Hi. Judy, very nice…
Meriam's daughter, Judy, fell in love with magic too.
And now we get to see the two of them in action together
at the renowned Magic Castle in Los Angeles.
-Just like people… -…we come in different colors.
-Different hues. -Different shapes.
-Different interests. -And different personalities.
Unfortunately, our differences can be what separate us.
Throughout history, they've led to great conflicts.
-Patriarchy. -Racism.
Slavery.
Wars.
Hillary, I want you to think of a time where you felt disconnected from people
and break the thread just like so.
And, Chelsea, I'd like you to do the same.
It's heartbreaking, isn't it?
Yet, there's still things that can bring us…
…together.
Now, Hillary, I want you to collect all the pieces of the thread
and just turn them into a ball.
That's great.
When we seek the things we share in common…
…we find unity and a shared sense of humanity.
The truth is that we are far more alike…
…than we are different.
-Wow. -Together we can make the world better.
-That is amazing. -Oh, my gosh!
-Amen to that. Right? -Amen. Wow.
Do you think you are the first or only Saudi woman who's doing magic?
As I was growing up,
women were not allowed to perform on a stage, period.
So not only magic.
Not to perform at all.
And so I don't know if I was the first one.
I only started to perform actually in front of people
when I came to the US.
And tell us a little bit about your journey here.
It's a hard decision. Still is.
Basically, when I came to the US, I was still married.
I came with my child.
And I wanted to get a divorce when we were there,
but it was extremely difficult.
And women in Saudi Arabia still cannot file for a divorce.
It's the man who divorces the woman.
And so I felt like it's not only my life now
that is being controlled but also my child's life
because she's also a girl.
And so I decided to stay, and I applied for asylum.
And we're still here. Yeah.
You know, walking around here, we see so many male magicians.
And certainly I grew up with this image
of sort of, like, the male magician and just the female assistant.
-Right. -So you were already breaking the mold.
It can be difficult for a woman to start that.
If they are men, they would be openly teaching them.
And maybe if it's a woman,
they would offer them to be their assistant.
And so it took a lot of time for people to break these gender roles.
As women make progress, there's always a backlash.
People in society, forces at work that wanna push that progress back.
What do you hope for your daughter Judy?
What kind of future would you like to see her be able to have?
As I was growing up, we had those gender roles drawn,
and nobody can cross them.
I was forced into staying home, and a dress code,
and women cannot do this, and women cannot do that.
So I want her to be able to do whatever she wants.
I don't think there are limitations for what she can be.
I love that.
-There's your wedding! -I know.
Since we're here talking about gutsy women, I do--
I miss my grandmother. I think about her every day.
This is just a walk down memory lane for me.
I do love that photograph of us, I have to say.
Of course, one of my all-time favorite pictures
is this one where I'm trying to impart some maternal wisdom,
and you are not having it.
-You are totally not having it. -But look, I'm mimicking you.
-I'm learning from you. -That's true.
You put your hands on your hips. I put my hands on my hips.
I think that's so true.
I was excited but apprehensive about how I would perform as a mother.
Because you're expected to be perfect,
and you know that's, like, totally unrealistic.
-And unhealthy. -And unhealthy.
-It's an unhealthy expectation. -Well, and it's unattainable.
And that's why I want to hear the story of the Kudjis.
Here was this immigrant mom, Cynthia, who raised her daughter by herself.
It turns out she not only became a doctor.
So did her daughter.
And I'm anxious to talk to them about, how do you try to grow a gutsy woman?
How do you get away from, you know, the curse of perfectionism?
We were doing research,
and we don't know of any other mother-daughter
who went to medical school at the same time
and then matched for your residency.
We googled it too.
So, tell us a little bit about your background.
So I went to nursing school. Right?
And worked as an RN for, like, eight years.
And Jasmine was still too young
for me to go to medical school.
I was like, "You know what? I'ma go and be a nurse practitioner."
When did you decide to go?
I pretty much always knew I wanted to go to medical school
'cause I was always with my mom.
Like, even when she was, you know, taking her classes,
like, I was there, you know, in her physics classes,
in her nursing classes.
Actually, I wanted her to be a doctor from the beginning.
-Did you? -So I was like, "This is a stethoscope."
So when she was playing Operation,
it was, like, much more serious?
-"You don't do that there." Yeah. -"You don't do that."
When I was growing up, there just weren't that many figures,
like African American figures.
And if you don't have that person or that image to see that it is possible,
it just makes it that much more difficult, you know?
And I knew that I would be her biggest influence, you know?
So I could not give up.
If I don't make it, it gives her an excuse not to make it.
I thank my mom for that.
Because, like she said,
because I saw her doing it, I was like, "Oh, yeah, I can do that."
You know, like, it wasn't even a question.
So, my mom has really curated my life.
I think you deserve a little credit too though.
-I think so too. -I mean, yeah.
The Kudjis' courage inspired us to decide to conquer a fear together
at a nearby honey farm.
These are gonna slide on just like big onesies.
You don't need to put the hoods on.
We'll wait till we get to the apiary and actually open up the hives to do that.
-Okay, yeah. -Open up the hives? Okay!
Did you notice I'm between the doctors?
-Welcome to my office. -Oh, wow.
You're standing in the presence
-of over 100,000 bees right now. -Oh, my goodness.
What I love about bees is that they are so incredibly selfless.
These bees right now are only living six weeks.
And they are legitimately working themselves to death
to benefit the next generation.
-We could learn something from the bees. -Sure can.
We can learn so much from the bees.
-Oh, my God. -Oh, wow.
Okay.
Oh, boy.
The majority of these are known as nurse bees.
Those are amazing.
-Would you like to hold them? -Okay.
So you can--
-Let her do it. -I'll do it.
She wants to impress her son.
Hi, Charlotte, Aidan and Jasper.
Here's Mommy with some bees.
And here's your grandmother at a safe distance.
-Great. Got it. -Got it?
Wow.
I'm about to get over this fear right now.
-Right now. -I'm about to do it.
Look, Jasmine. Look at this.
-I'm so proud of you right now. -I am proud of myself!
I'm proud of you.
When we talk about gutsy women, you know,
it doesn't mean you don't get discouraged or disappointed
or face setbacks.
Or sometimes you need people to help you keep going.
-Yeah. -That was 100% our experience.
I failed my first year of medical school.
And I remember that being just, like, the most traumatic thing ever.
I was like, "I don't know if I wanna do this anymore."
And I remember my mom being like,
"Jasmine, you can do this. You just need to adjust."
You know, and I think that's the most important thing
about becoming a successful person is learning how to adjust after failure.
-Amen! -That's right.
There's nothing like taking on a new adventure
and getting to share that experience with your mom.
Look at these great pictures.
-We had so much fun. -Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh, Chelsea.
Traveling around the world with you was one of the great joys
-of being in the White House. -Agreed.
Literally expanding my horizons.
There we are at the Taj Mahal. That was such a great day.
I did try to bring you into the experience that I was having
as well as enhancing your life.
It was such a great opportunity,
and I was so happy you could share it with me.
Me too.
I've been so lucky to meet thousands of brave, gutsy people.
Particularly, you know, mothers fighting for their children
or trying to get a better life for their children
or standing up against powerful interests.
It's really humbling and also really inspiring.
And then I think about Dolores Huerta, who's a longtime friend.
Dolores fought alongside the great labor leader Cesar Chavez
to unionize workers in California's grape vineyards.
She led protests against unsafe working conditions,
harmful pesticides and very low pay.
And she was one of the major architects of a nationwide grape boycott.
A thousand people were killed last year.
And then people say, "Where at? In Vietnam?"
And I say, "No. In the fields of the United States of America."
The workers are on the rise.
There will be strikes throughout the country,
and it will not be stopped until we receive equality.
Dolores Huerta, an old friend of mine who has worked with the union…
She was on the front lines, standing up for labor rights,
human rights, women's rights.
-And she had 11 children. -Eleven children.
And 11 children over three decades.
Everything in this world has come from the body of a woman!
Even after all these years, Dolores hasn't slowed down.
Neither have her daughters,
several of whom help run the Dolores Huerta Foundation,
which is supporting and training
the next generation of community organizers.
When I'm roasting and cooking the chilies,
the smell just brings me back to thinking of our grandmother.
She made tamales.
We did not learn cooking from our mother.
No. She just cooks a few times a year.
'Cause Mom was busy. Mom was out doing her thing,
so we would soak up the information from the people around us.
I can't wait to see Dolores. I think we're gonna make tamales.
-We're definitely gonna make tamales. -You know I love tamales.
Hello!
-Oh, my gosh, I'm so happy to see you! -Thank you for having us.
Welcome to our home!
This is so exciting. To have your daughters together.
I'll tell you, I never could have done this without them.
It's like my youngest son, Ricky, said, "I had four mothers."
Shall we sit and make tamales?
How do you do this without eating everything?
'Cause it's raw.
-It's like raw cookie dough. -I mean--
Are you saying you don't eat raw cookie dough?
-Well, you're not supposed to. -I was gonna say.
How old were all of you when you learned to make tamales?
When I was 18 years old.
And one of the people who taught me was Helen Chavez, Cesar's wife.
Do you all remember your first protest?
I don't because we literally grew up on the picket line.
I remember when we were boycotting grapes. I remember being in front of the Safeways.
She stopped more people than any of us. She was passing out leaflets saying,
"There's pesticides on the grapes."
She was only six when she did that.
When they were small, they never had play days.
They had picket line days.
Did you recruit your friends?
In second grade, you're like, "There's something awesome happening on Saturday."
In de la Paz, they had a hospital that was underdeveloped,
and the kids always wanted to spend the night.
And one time my mother was packing up her car,
and the kids, Juanita and all of them, they're little, like ten, 11, whatever.
They're saying, "Can we spend the night?" And my mom's saying, "No."
And Juanita asked, "Why not?"
And, "You let Ricky," our brother, "go last-- spend the night last night."
And I said, "That sounds sexist. You guys should picket her."
So they all picked up sticks, and they're going around my mom's car,
and they're not letting her leave.
They're going around the car, saying, "Sexist. Sexist."
And Camila, who was little at that time-- she was probably five or six--
she's going around the car, "Sexy. Sexy. Sexy."
I love that. Activism didn't stop at home.
-We don't have any more. -Smelling like tamales.
This was such a great way to see you again,
with your daughters.
And I have to ask you, Dolores,
how on earth you managed leading the movement
plus raising your children.
Well, like, Juanita, she wouldn't eat if I left her,
so I had to actually take her to negotiations with me.
And then I had to depend on my older daughters,
who helped a lot with the younger children.
Like, for us, it was so hard having her gone so much.
Do you feel like you went through that too?
I remember having terrible nightmares as a kid that something had happened to them.
Which I think is partly why
they worked so hard to never be gone at the same time.
I didn't have any siblings.
I have no cousins that are my generation.
So I had no one that I grew up with.
So I had a very different experience than all of you.
You know, my mom pretty much was a single mother,
you know, at the time when she really started organizing.
And, you know, we'd hang out at the community meetings
that the farm workers would have.
How do you explain who Dolores Huerta is to your kids and your grandkids?
I always try to share my childhood experiences,
which are sometimes not so positive.
You know, I was very visual with them about everything
so that they understood what Grandma was doing
and why Grandma was gone.
Like the way my mother did, you know, with us,
you know, taking us to the picket lines and talking to us about what the issue was
and what's going on--
That's how I taught my children.
I think that most of our kids too have gone into public service
in one way or another.
They understand how important it is to continue the work.
You can't just be comfortable and say,
"Okay, well, I've done this. We're done now."
I tell them the great stories of people that took care of us. The funny stories.
Like one time, they slashed my mom's tires and she still made us go to school.
We thought we weren't gonna have to go to school. She--
You're like, "Slash tire day instead of snow day."
Then your mom's like, "Nope."
-Yeah. "You're going." -"You're going to school."
Delano has shown what can be done.
And the workers know that they are no longer alone.
I think a lot of people also wouldn't know
you got arrested often.
And you got beaten up.
There's a price to be paid. Isn't there?
During the '60s,
there was a book called A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
But there was one phrase in there that I always remember.
"When you decide to become a warrior for justice,
you can expect you're gonna have a lot of arrows slung at you."
I had the privilege of receiving one of the eagle feathers
that was bestowed on me at Cesar Chavez's gravesite.
And along with the spirit of the eagle,
the sage carries our prayers up to the creator.
We pray that everybody leave here today with the same energy
to continue doing the good work that we're all doing for the community.
How do you get people to understand
that they can do something to change what they don't think is right
or that is not working for them?
When you organize people,
you have to make them understand that they have to take leadership.
They have to do the work,
and they have to understand that if they don't do it,
it's not gonna happen.
I just like to say that everybody can be an activist.
Yeah. Well, you've raised all your kids to be activists.
I mean, it's amazing.
The family that pickets together stays together.
Here they come.
Hi, everybody.
Hi.
Salud.
Cheers!
I feel so blessed
that I could have a mother who has such an impact.
And I think that we've all passed it along.
That's what's fantastic, you know? We just continue it. Keep it going.
Don't let it go away.
I think being a good mother is, first and foremost, always about love.
You are there to help them become the best version of themselves
and let your children know that you're always in it together.
The only real significant thing is feeling that the family that we're creating,
at the end of the day, had that connection and that love.
This is family. We are a family.
I may be a different kind of auntie, but I'm still an auntie.
You know, I think, for my mother,
at the core of everything she taught me was
that I was the only person who would ever be me.
And what was I going to do to make the most out of it?
It's a bond that, if you can make it right,
you've got everything.
Love you, so much.