During Variety's Power of Women event on May 5, the honoree and talkshow host said that she "couldn't stop crying" over the leaked Supreme Court opinion, but shared that her 9-year-old daughter Olive gave her hope for the future.
"The last, obviously, 24 hours, as in the last two years, as in maybe since the beginning of time, we've been living in a fight or flight state," she said in her acceptance speech. "Yesterday I couldn't stop crying at just everything and the state of the world, and today, my daughter walked in and she said,'Mom, I have a mission.' And she read me a four-page speech that she wrote and she's going to crusade to lower the age of voting rights to 16. And she spoke about women's rights and I just sat there with my jaw open, just so relieved, so happy that she is this person."
