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Williams explained that she's tried to live a life that she can \"stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over ... one that I carved with my own hand, and I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose.\"

\"To choose when to have my children and with whom, when I felt supported and able to balance our lives, knowing as all mothers know that scales must and will tip towards our children,\" she continued.

\"I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank god for whoever you pray to that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours.\"

\"Women are the largest voting body in the country. Let's make it look more like us.\"

YES.

Thank you, Michelle Williams. #goldenglobes2020 pic.twitter.com/39vqh6ETvJ

— TIME'S UP (@TIMESUPNOW) January 6, 2020

She finished her speech with a call to action to voters in the United States.

\"So women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self interest,\" she urged. \"It's what men have been doing for years.\"

\"It is what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them,\" she added. \"Don't forget we are the largest voting body in this country. Let's make it look more like us.\"

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