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And I say of course, because we do recognize the special Cocktail of venom and ridicule which is always tinged with sexual threat that's served up online for women any woman in any profession who stands out to tell the truth. I revere the people who do this. Because I am not a naturally brave person. I think standing up in front of a thousand people who are smarter than me and presuming to tell them anything is nauseating. And I would rather be home watching Rachael frankly. [ LAUGH ] But I do, I do know something about real terror. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] The two times in my life when I was threatened and dealt with real physical violence, I learned something about life that I wouldn't have known otherwise And I was lucky because my instinct serve me well. In one instance I played dead, and waited until the blows stop watching like people say you do from about 50 feet above where I was beaten. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] And in the second instance, someone else was being abused and I just went completely nuts and went after this man. Ask Cher, she was there. [ LAUGH ] And the thug ran away, there's a miracle. But I was changed by these events on a cellular level because women do know something particular about coming to the danger place. We come to it disadvantaged through the many millenia preceding our present moment and because of our vulnerability, we anticipate danger. We expect it. We're hyper alert to it. We have the 360 on the whole room. We have, they say measurably more acute hearing, we have a better sense of smell. 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