Don't Let'em Hold You Back! | Janis Palma | TEDxClemsonU

When I was about 9 years old, I lived in a house that had bars in front and I used those bars to climb up on the roof. Of course, when nobody was watching except maybe my little sister. But one day I was up on the roof and my mother came out and she saw me and she goes, "Get down from there. What are you doing?" Why.Because you're a girl. And that was the reason they gave me for everything that I could not do because I was a girl. I was not allowed to play with boys. I was not allowed to even look at boys i ...