My great nation, we have come to far to be defined by fear. We have come too far to run from change. We have come too far to allow hate to govern our country.

I am a woman and I will stand by my country. I still have the right to say "no", even if our president-elect has been accused of rape. I still have the right to my body even if our president-elect has been caught saying "grab 'em by the pussy". And even if he looks me in my "fat, ugly face" I will look him right back in his and say to him, "You do not own me; you do not define me; and I am not afraid."

I will not cower in fear because my country has elected a president who is a homophobic, misogynistic, xenophobic warmonger. I will not hide in shame of my heritage because it is not "traditionally white" like his. I will not stop clawing my way to the top because I am a woman and to him we are of no value. I will not stop fighting tooth and nail day in and day out for what I believe in and for what I know is right.

As a nation we will continue to grow. We will continue to educate ourselves and others because the world does not stop turning for the next four years. Time will keep going and we will continue to progress. We will continue to hold the American values of equality and freedom and we will not limit them even if our president-elect thinks we should.

Ladies, we will continue to throw rocks at that glass ceiling because someday it will break and that is something we should never stop fighting for. Hillary may not have done it, but someone else will. And when she does, we should all take pride in "being with her".

A nation so great, we have come so far and I refuse to go backwards. Others may say they're leaving the country but I am staying right here. I am staying by my country because we are the "land of opportunity" and we will not back down. We will rise above and become a stronger nation and look back on how we changed history.

We will progress. We will rise above. We will become a stronger nation. November 9th 2016 may not have been the best of day for many of us, but we will band together and continue to fight for better tomorrows. We are the land of the free and the home of the brave and we will not be defined by fear.

"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933)