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"There were so many inspiring moments at Glamour&amp;#39;s Women of the Year Awards last night, I woke up this morning still energized from the evening. The question everyone seemed to have on their minds as we got up from our seats and poured out onto the sidewalk was, *How can we take what we just heard and use it to do more?*And you&amp;#39;ll feel that way too, especially after you see all the videos and inspiring quotes from the night (stay tuned!). But to recap, the buzz in Carnegie Hall was off the charts, and not just because of the amazing honorees (or the nonstop tweets), but also the amazing presenter lineup, which included Lena Dunham, Oscar de la Renta, Arianna Huffington, Marina Abramovic, and Hillary Clinton. The crowd went wild when Clinton walked out and again later, when Lifetime Achievement honoree Barbra Streisand mentioned how much we need more women in office, including a&amp;#8212;wink, wink&amp;#8212;female president.\nPinterestFacebookLena Dunham presented the Woman of the Year Award to Melinda Gates.\nDuring a tearful moment for everyone, Kaitlin Roig-Debellis, the teacher who saved her 15 first-graders during the shooting in Newtown, Conn., last year, was greeted onstage by nine of her former students&amp;#39; mothers. Before Kaitlin spoke, one of the mothers told her, &amp;quot;What you&amp;#39;ve done for our families has been immeasurable.&amp;quot;\nPinterestFacebookKaitlin Roig-Debellis talked about her charity, Classes 4 Classes, which encourages kids to &amp;quot;pay it forward.&amp;quot;\nAfter an introduction by actress America Ferrara, Malala Yousafzai stepped to the stage to a standing ovation. Glamour&amp;#39;&amp;#39;s Girls in the Balcony, who are young women from schools and organizations like the Lower East Side Girls Club, couldn&amp;#39;t hold in their excitement. A group of them yelled over the cheers, &amp;quot;Thank you, Malala. We love you!&amp;quot;\nFind out how you can help support Malala&amp;#39;s mission to education girls around the world. \nPinterestFacebookMalala Yousafzai addressed the audience.\nThe king of Bravo TV Andy Cohen was joined by Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who won the Supreme Court case that overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, and Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, the couple who successfully fought for the right to marry in California, to celebrate this year&amp;#39;s same-sex marriage rulings. As if that weren&amp;#39;t powerful enough, more than a dozen other same-sex couples who married this year joined them on stage...all to roaring cheers.\nPinterestFacebookAndy Cohen helped Glamour celebrate this year&amp;#39;s rulings on same-sex marriage.\nOne of the sweetest tributes of the night came courtesy of Hillary Clinton, who introduced her friends and the first Couple of the Year, Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly. Clinton also told a touching story about Kelly once telling Giffords, &amp;quot;You&amp;#39;re the closest to heaven I&amp;#39;ve ever been.&amp;quot; It&amp;#39;s a beautiful sentiment from anyone, but when you consider that Kelly is an astronaut who&amp;#39;s been to space four times, you can&amp;#39;t help but melt.\nPinterestFacebook*Glamour *editor-in-chief Cindi Leive, presenter Hillary Clinton, and Couple of the Year Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly\nYou can&amp;#39;t introduce Lady Gaga without music, and the PS 22 Chorus&amp;#8212;an ever-changing group of fifth-graders at a school in Staten Island&amp;#8212;delivered with a medley of her biggest hits. After their performance, Gaga hugged the kids and told them they did a great job as they all reached out to shake her hand. Then she got down to business, revealing that activism has become her true passion. &amp;quot;What I&amp;#39;m really best at is seeing the potential in other people,&amp;quot; she said.\nPinterestFacebookMembers of the PS 22 Chorus sang a montage of Lady Gaga&amp;#39;s music, including her recent hit &amp;quot;Applause.&amp;quot;\nThe woman, the legend, the Lifetime Achievement winner&amp;#8212;yes, we&amp;#39;re talking about Barbra Streisand&amp;#8212;closed out the night with a thoughtful speech that spanned fashion, politics, and gender equality in health care. She might be best known for her voice, but she&amp;#39;s also a passionate advocate for women, specifically when it comes to heart disease (it&amp;#39;s the number one killer of women in the U.S.). She told the audience that she loved seeing her name on a marquee, but &amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#39;t have guessed how much more satisfying it would be to see my name in stainless steel at [the Barbra Streisand Women&amp;#39;s Heart Center at] Cedars-Sinai,&amp;quot; of which she&amp;#39;s a huge supporter. Finally, she said this to all the women and girls watching: &amp;quot;The world is waiting to hear from you. You are the women we are waiting for.&amp;quot;\nPinterestFacebookLifetime Achievement Award winner Barbra Streisand\nIt doesn&amp;#39;t get much more inspiring (or empowering) than that!\nUPDATE: Watch some of the highlights from the Women of the Year Awards right here:\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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