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"Tonight&amp;#x27;s Women of the Year Awards are in the books, and it delivered everything we&amp;#x27;d hoped for (and more, naturally!): Katie Couric and Andy Cohen opening with a game of &amp;quot;celebrity&amp;quot;, a special honor for rescuers of Hurricane Sandy presented by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a crowd who leapt to their feet at the first chance to grant Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a standing O, Pharell and Ethan Hawe definitely participating in Movember, adorable Kennedy children snoozing on the podium, and this moment from award-winner Lena Dunham: While in the middle of a gracious, heartfelt acceptance speech, she kicked off her metallic platforms. Dunham paused, laughed with the audience (&amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s so much better!&amp;quot;), and kept right on going. Here&amp;#x27;s the view I snapped of Lena charging right along with her speech in her bare feet! That right there: that&amp;#x27;s what this night was about. No, not about Lena&amp;#x27;s bare feet on the stage of Carnegie Hall (though that&amp;#x27;s OMG-awesome for our scrapbook!), but about women who had the confidence, the spirit, and the oopmh to make the choices that were considered too out-there for most, that weren&amp;#x27;t always easiest, and do them with conviction, sometimes in the doubting eyes of others. Passion was out in full-force with all of the honorees and attendees, whether or not they were inspiring &amp;quot;Bader-Ginsburg-level change,&amp;quot; as Dunham said. We can&amp;#x27;t wait to share more of the energy that was in the room, the words exchanged, and the moments that made us clap so hard our hands hurt. Selena! Jenna! Sharmeen! Erin! and oh, the list just goes on. We&amp;#x27;ll be back with a video tomorrow, so come get it! Photo: Theo Wargo/WireImage for Glamour Magazine"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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