This TED Talk features restaurant tour Leah Chase recorded live at TED Women 2017.

Oh, this is beautiful. Oh, gosh, I never saw such a room for beauty and strength like I'm looking at.

Oh, that's gorgeous. It is. It is a beautiful room.

I almost said your age, because you gave me permission,

but I realized I was about to make you a year older. You're only 94.

Yeah, I'm only 94.

And, you know, you get this old and the parts start wearing out, your legs start wearing out.

But one thing that my children always say, but nothing happened to your mouth.

So you've got to have something going, so I got my mouth going.

So Mrs. Chase, the first time we were there, I brought a group of young women who work with us at TED and into the kitchen, and we were all standing around, and you'd already

cooked lunch for hundreds of people as you do every day, and you looked up at them.

You have to share with this audience what you said to those young women.

Well, you know, I talk to young women all the time,

and it's beginning to bother me because look how far I came.

You know, I've come with women that had to really hustle and work hard, and they knew how to be women.

They didn't play that man down, and we, well, we didn't have the education you have today.

And God, I'm so proud when I see those women with all that education under their belt.

That's what I work hard,

trying to get everybody to use those resources.

So, you know, they just don't know their power.

And I always tell them, just look,

my mother had 12 girls before she had a boy.

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