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By (author) Russell Anna; Illustrated by Pinheiro, Camila
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Over 50 empowering speeches celebrating women in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day.
This book is also now available in an edited and resized edition under the title Great Women”s Speeches.
Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation.The first dedicated collection of seminal speeches by women from around the world, So Here I Am is about
women at the forefront of change – within politics, science, human rights and media; discussing everything from free love, anti-war, scientific discoveries, race, gender and women”s rights.
From Emmeline Pankhurst”s ”Freedom or Death” speech and Marie Curie”s trailblazing Nobel lecture, to Michelle Obama speaking on parenthood in politics and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza”s stirring ode to black women, the words collected here are
empowering,
engaging and
inspiring.
New Yorker writer Anna Russell
introduces each speech with a concise bio of the remarkable woman who delivered it. Paired with
powerful illustrations from Camila Pinheiro, the unique personality of each woman is brought to vivid life. A pink ribbon keeps your place in the book.
This anthology of outspoken women throughout history is essential reading for anyone who believes that
change is not only possible, it is necessary.
The women: Elizabeth I; Fanny Wright; Maria Stewart; Angelina Grimké; Sojourner Truth; Victoria Woodhull; Sarah Winnemucca; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Mary Church Terrell; Ida B. Wells; Countess Markievicz; Marie Curie; Emmeline Pankhurst; Nellie McClung; Jutta Bojsen-Møller; Emma Goldman; Nancy Astor; Margaret Sanger; Virginia Woolf; Huda Sha”arawi; Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti; Eva Perón; Helen Keller; Eleanor Roosevelt; Shirley Chisholm; Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Sylvia Rivera; Simone Veil; Indira Gandhi; Margaret Thatcher; Ursula K. Le Guin; Barbara McClintock; Corazon C. Aquino; Naomi Wolf; Severn Cullis-Suzuki; Wilma Mankiller; Toni Morrison; Hillary Clinton; Wangari Maathai; J.K. Rowling; Angela Merkel; Sheryl Sandberg; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Asmaa Mahfouz; Manal al-Sharif; Julia Gillard; Malala Yousafzai; Emma Watson; Jane Goodall; Michelle Obama; Gloria Steinem; Beatrice Fihn; Alicia Garza; Maya Lin.
Table of contents
Introduction
Elizabeth I, On the Spanish Armada, 1588
Fanny Wright, Of Free Inquiry Considered as a Means for Obtaining Just Knowledge, 1829
Maria Stewart, Farewell Address, 1833
Angelina Grimke, Anti-Slavery Speech, 1838
Sojourner Truth, Ain”t I A Woman?, 1851
Victoria Woodhull, The Principles of Social Freedom, 1871
Sarah Winnemucca, Indian Affairs Statement, 1884
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Solitude of Self, 1892
Mary Church Terrell, What it Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States, 1906
Ida B. Wells, This Awful Slaughter, 1909
Countess Markievicz, Women, Ideals and the Nation, 1909
Marie Curie, Nobel Prize Lecture: Radium and the New Concepts in Chemistry, 1911
Emmeline Pankhurst, Freedom or Death, 1913
Nellie McClung, Should Men Vote?, 1914
Jutta Bojsen-Moller, Victory for Votes, 1915
Emma Goldman, Address to the Jury, 1917
Nancy Astor, Maiden Speech in Parliament, 1920
Margaret Sanger, The Morality of Birth Control, 1921
Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women, 1931
Huda Sha”arawi, Speech at the Arab Feminist Conference, 1944
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, A Talk About Women, 1949
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