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Address to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992 / Severn Cullis-Suzuki -- Northern Arizona University Commencement Speech, 1992 / Wilma Mankiller -- Nobel Lecture, 1993 / Toni Morrison -- Remarks for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995 / Hillary Clinton -- Nobel Lecture, 2004 / Wangari Maathai -- Harvard University Commencement Speech, 2008 / J.K. Rowling -- Speech to the US Congress, 2009 / Angela Merkel -- Barnard College Commencement Speech, 2011 / Sheryl Sandberg -- Nobel Lecture, 2011 / Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- The Vlog that Helped Spark the Egyptian Revolution, 2011 / Asmaa Mahfouz -- The Drive for Freedom, 2012 / Manal al-Sharif -- The Misogyny Speech, 2012 / Julia Gillard -- Nobel Lecture, 2014 / Malala Yousafzai -- HeForShe Launch Campaign, 2014 / Emma Watson -- Caring for the Earth -- Reasons for Hope, 2016 / Jane Goodall -- Speech at the Democratic National Convention, 2016 / Michelle Obama;The first and only dedicated collection of speeches by women from around the world, So here I am is about women speaking up - within politics, science, human rights and media; discussing everything from free love, anti-war, scientific discoveries, race, gender and womens rights. From Emmeline Pankhursts Freedom or Death speech and Marie Curies trailblazing Nobel lecture, to Michelle Obama speaking on parenthood in politics and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garzas stirring ode to black women, the words collected here are empowering, engaging, inspiring and unapologetic--Back cover.;On the Spanish Armada, 1588 / Elizabeth I -- Of Free Inquiry, Considered as a Means for Obtaining Just Knowledge, 1829 / Fanny Wright -- Farewell Address, 1833 / Maria Stewart -- Anti-Slavery Speech, 1838 / Angelina Grimke -- Aint I A Woman?, 1851 / Sojourner Truth -- The Principles of Social Freedom, 1871 / Victoria Woodhull -- Indian Affairs Statement, 1884 / Sarah Winnemucca -- The Solitude of Self, 1892 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States, 1906 / Mary Church Terrell -- This Awful Slaughter, 1909 / Ida B. Wells -- Women, Ideals and the Nation, 1909 / Countess Markievicz -- Nobel Lecture: Radium and the New Concepts in Chemistry, 1911 / Marie Curie -- Freedom or Death, 1913 / Emmeline Pankhurst -- Should Men Vote?, 1914 / Nellie McClung -- Victory for Votes, 1915 / Jutta Bojsen-Meller -- Address to the Jury, 1917 / Emma Goldman -- Maiden Speech in Parliament, 1920 / Nancy Astor;Womens March Speech, 2017 / Gloria Steinem -- Nobel Lecture, 2017 / Beatrice Fihn -- An Ode to Black Women, 2017 / Alicia Garza -- SVA Commencement Address, 2018 / Maya Lin.;The Morality of Birth Control, 1921 / Margaret Sanger -- Professions for Women, 1931 / Virginia Woolf -- Speech at the Arab Feminist Conference, 1944 / Huda Shaarawi -- A Talk About Women, c. 1949 / Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti -- Speech to the Descam/sados, 1951 / Eva Peron -- The Life and Legacy of Louis Braille, 1952 / Helen Keller -- The United Nations as a Bridge, 1954 / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Equal Rights for Women, 1969 / Shirley Chisholm -- Argument in Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973 / Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Yall Better Quiet Down, 1973 / Sylvia Rivera -- Speech to Parliament on Abortion Law, 1974 / Simone Veil -- True Liberation of Women, 1980 / Indira Gandhi -- The Ladys Not For Turning, 1981 / Margaret Thatcher -- A Left-Handed Commencement Address, 1983 / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Nobel Lecture, 1983 / Barbara McClintock -- Speech During the Joint Session of the US Congress, 1986 / Corazon C. Aquino -- A Womans Place, 1992 / Naomi Wolf

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SO HERE I AM Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire ANNA RUSSELL - photo 1
SO HERE I AM

Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire

ANNA RUSSELL

Introduction Can you think of a speech by a woman Thats the question I - photo 2

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Can you think of a speech by a woman Thats the question I asked friends and - photo 3

Can you think of a speech by a woman?

Thats the question I asked friends and colleagues, family members, former teachers and the occasional unsuspecting stranger, as I started research on this book.

Can you think of a speech by a woman? Id frame it festively, like a trivia question, or a game you might play on a long car ride. It was not a test or a trick; I didnt know the answer. Often, after some thought, the names of a few women would surface, slowly, like bits of silver dredged from the ocean floor, and wed quickly latch on to them. The details were hazy and difficult to make out; the experience was like straining to listen to a conversation being held behind a closed door. Didnt Sojourner Truth say something? wed ask ourselves, sheepishly. What was it that Virginia Woolf expressed so eloquently? And Who was that righteous bonneted lady who made a declaration at Seneca Falls?

In the history of women, many tangible things have been lost to us: posters and petitions; buttons and flyers; private letters and secret diaries; artwork and criticism and literature, appropriated or unsigned for centuries; and an untold number of scrawled lists recording household tasks, doctors appointments, due dates, groceries and funerals. So perhaps its not so surprising that womens speeches are hard to pin down. What, after all, happens to our words after we speak them? Are they scribbled on notepads and transcribed into articles and books? Do they lodge in someones ear, and repeat themselves at quiet moments? Or do they somersault away from our mouths and fade into obscurity?

Early on, I worried that we would not be able to find enough speeches by women to fill a book. One weekend in May, I went to the Brooklyn Public Library and examined a shelf of speech anthologies with serious, reassuring titles: The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches, The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches, American Speeches, Give Me Liberty. This is a treasure trove, I thought. Yet inside the largest collection, The Worlds Great Speeches: 292 Speeches from Pericles to Nelson Mandela (Fourth Enlarged Edition), I found almost as many speeches by men about women, as speeches by women. Former US senator Chauncey Mitchell Depew appeared with a speech titled Woman, the US Civil War officer Horace Porter had Woman! and Mark Twain, in 1882, outdid them both with Woman, God Bless Her. Of 292 speeches, eleven were actually given by women.

In her magnificent history of feminism, The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present (2010), Christine Stansell writes of the consequences of historical amnesia for the womens movement; of feminisms tendency towards compulsive repetitions of old mistakes, old arguments, old quandaries. Its as if each generation of women, Ive sometimes thought, coming into their own, and finding the world not as they wished it to be, attacked the same problems as their mothers and grandmothers and even their great-grandmothers without knowing which tools worked and which failed: a kind of perpetual reinvention of the wheel. Often, a new generation has turned on an older one, and, eyes blazing, blamed them for not doing more, without understanding the constraints on those earlier women, who may have been radicals in their own time. How, I wondered, can we still be asking ourselves, after all this thought and stress and study, what it is to be a woman in the world?

From the library, I walked towards the Brooklyn Museum, where Judy Chicagos room-sized installation, The Dinner Party, completed in 1979, is the centrepiece of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Structured as an enormous triangular banquet table, there is an elaborate place setting for thirty-nine iconic women from throughout history and mythology: Virginia Woolf is there, as is Georgia OKeeffe, Sacajawea, Sappho and Elizabeth I. Beneath the table, on a Heritage Floor, are ceramic tiles painted with the names of nearly one thousand additional women, some familiar, others obscure: Alice Paul, Carlota Matienzo, Florence Nightingale, Catherine II (The Great), Clare of Assisi, Hipparchia, Maria Luisa Sanchez, Rose Mooney, Teresa Villarreal. We dont always think of history in terms of physical space, but Chicagos piece suggests the difficult work of developing a canon of deciding who gets a seat at the table.

In the 1970s, with Womens Studies programmes in colleges still in their infancy, Chicago and her researchers compiled their list of women from haphazard sources, from second-hand books and library catalogues, and by asking each other: an extended network of intelligent, collaborative women (and some men). They were quite literally building the table. By the time I first visited the work, as a curious middle-school student with my parents, over two decades later, the women invited to sit seemed like obvious choices, even a tad too obvious, with reputations beyond dispute. However, the space accorded to women, at a table or in an exhibition or within an anthology, is never without dispute. These are not academic questions: it took some twenty-two years, despite sold-out shows around the world, for The Dinner Party to find a permanent home in a museum.

The transmission of stories about womens lives and choices from one generation to the next is nothing new. It seems likely women have always done it, in private spaces among one another, in gossip or whispered phrases or unsigned work. (In the 1929 essay A Room of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf supposes that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.) Around the time of the French Revolution, women began grappling with the state of their political lives in print; as the British intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft did in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and as Olympe de Gouges, the French activist and playwright, did in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791). These were powerful and clear-eyed tracts about womens lot in life; forthright about changes that needed to be made. Still, they were written rather than spoken. The public sphere in many cultures, where lectures and debates took place, was a space reserved almost exclusively for men. At last, in the early 1800s, women, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom, began speaking out in public about their own condition.

This was a revolutionary act; eggs were thrown, reputations were ruined. In 1829, when the Scottish-born abolitionist Fanny Wright gave an American lecture tour on subjects as innocuous as the importance of education before audiences of both men and women, she was met with scorn, denounced as a prostitute and called a red harlot of infidelity.

Many of the early speeches in this collection come from female abolitionists in the United States, who, speaking out against slavery, soon came to question their own status as second-class citizens. Maria Stewart, an African-American abolitionist, spoke courageously about womens potential as early as 1832. Angelina and Sarah Grimk, the daughters of Southern plantation owners, scandalized their family when they embarked on an anti-slavery speaking tour. In 1838, Angelina gave a passionate speech at Pennsylvania Hall, while an angry mob battered at the doors, and later burned the place down.

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