It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am wearing sneakers too. You are in a suit, I am comfortable. So when she explained to me that this was the first event really of its kind, it floored me. So I called my daughter who is in her 30s now and I said __o you know what endometriosis is?_ She said, __hat? Have to pack the pack the busters.__ said __o man, you have never heard of it?_ No she said. I do not know what it is, and it occurred to me that my 30-year-old daughter who I told about endometriosis and it didn__ stick. If she didn__ know, and she is one of the hippest people I know, and her daughter doesn__ know, she has 19-year-old and she is a 13-year-old. The boy, we don__ care much about if he knows about it so much. There is other stuff for him to learn. Like how to roll a condom, things like that.You know, and it occurred to me that if they didn__ know that there were hundreds of thousands girls out there that don__ know. It is not because their mothers don__ want to tell them, because it__ not religion, it__ pure ignorance. We don__ know, we don__ have the information, we have it now, and so now is why this very first gathering is happening. Now is why we__e all sitting here looking really fabulous as you are...[Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball]
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