Women Speeches

From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the...

Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, New York Times best-selling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual power, unite with their pack, and emerge victorious together.

Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the center of the most scandalous love affair of the 20th century, but in this “unputdownable…lively and detailed” (The Times, London) biography, discover a woman wronged by history with new information revealed by the latest research and those who...

In an increasingly competitive job market, it is essential that your voice doesn’t let you down. Voice for Women in Business gives you the strategies and vocal techniques to help to you speak with vocal elegance, to find your voice of authority, and to help you gain greater vocal confidence. First impressions matter! Voice for Women in Business will help you to make the right vocal impact in many professional scenarios.

A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has...

In this urgent expansion of her viral speech, Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow details her unlikely journey into politics with a front-row seat to democracy at its breaking point—then outlines the tangible, proven steps that anyone can take to build community, fight for what's right, and...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton said at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. One-hundred of the 300 convention attendees signed this speech that, modeled on the Constitution, served as a declaration of the women’s rights movement. Stanton did not mince words when she stated, “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.”

From the COVID lab leak theory to Hunter Biden's laptop to Jeffrey Epstein, media critic and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer spotlights the problems of a news industry filled with geographically isolated, introspection-free, egomaniacal journalists. In Uncovered, America’s sharpest media...

In an illuminating new preface, Strossen lays out the multiple current assaults on sexual expression, which continue to come from across the ideological spectrum. She shows that freedom for such expression remains an essential prerequisite for the equality, safety, and dignity of women and sexual/gender minorities.

Indie women's wrestling does not get enough credit, so let us change that and praise indie women's wrestling.

"Meine Schlittschuhe behandle ich wie ein Schmuckstück, das ich immer in einem speziellen Koffer bei mir trage. Ein Geiger lässt seine Stradivari ja auch nicht aus den Augen. Ich mochte es nicht einmal, wenn jemand sie auch nur anfasste oder gar an ihnen herumdrückte. Meine Schlittschuhe sind ein Teil von mir. Ohne sie kann ich meine Kunst nicht zeigen." Schon mit drei Jahren steht die kleine Denise im Dolder, einer Eisbahn in Zürich, auf dem Eis, und ihre Mutter – selbst Eiskunstläuferin – erkennt schnell, dass ihre Tochter Talent hat. Bald wird klar, dass dieses Talent sehr groß ist.

Am liebsten würde sie dem unbarmherzigen Bayerwald für immer entfliehen: Als Kind hat Josefa wegen ihres ungewöhnlichen Aussehens unter den abergläubischen Waldlern ebenso zu leiden wie unter den Misshandlungen ihrer Mutter. Als junge Frau erfährt sie - wenn auch nur für kurze Zeit - was Glück bedeutet. Viel zu schnell wird es ihr jedoch auf grausame Weise wieder genommen. Doch sie bäumt sich auf ihre eigene Art gegen ihr Schicksal auf und denkt dabei immer zuerst an ihren Sohn, für den sie sich eine bessere Zukunft wünscht.

The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, this volume featuring some of the most influential women in world history. Fort Raphael Publishing has collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time, all of which were written and delivered by the most important women of their respective eras.

The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, this volume featuring some of the most influential women in world history. Fort Raphael Publishing has collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time, all of which were written and delivered by the most important women of their respective eras.

This is a special production from SoundCraft Audiobooks, the eighth volume in the History's Greatest Speeches series and the second to feature the voices of some of the most important women in world history. From Ida B. Wells' (Devereau Chumrau) powerful condemnation of the scourge of lynching to Eva Peron's (Kelly Silva O'Rourke) renunciation of the vice presidency of Argentina, these speeches were among the most influential, important, and moving speeches ever delivered.

James Grant, a young politician with everything going for him, including the most recent polls, gives a rousing stump speech in a local park. His campaign for mayor against the entrenched incumbent looks unstoppable. That is, until the police discover him standing over his wife’s dead body with the murder weapon in his hands. It certainly looks as if James is guilty. But psychologist and acoustics expert Pamela Barnes has other ideas - and they include helping this young man prove his innocence and succeed in his bid for mayor.

The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Roxanne Granville is used to getting what she wants—even if she has to break the rules. But after a falling-out with her grandfather, a powerful movie mogul, she has to face life on her own for the first time.… Roxanne forges a career unique for women in...

In the midst of her groundbreaking twenty-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once declared, “Everyone—with the exception of the black woman herself—has been interpreting the black woman.” Edited and introduced by Zinga A. Fraser, Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words gives listeners a rare opportunity to engage with the congresswoman’s powerful ideas in her own voice.

Zürich im Sommer. Lisa Klee, eine unerfahrene Assistenzärztin der Rechtsmedizin, macht sich bei Kollegen und Ermittlungsbehörden zum Gespött, weil sie hinter einem offenkundigen Selbstmord ein Tötungsdelikt vermutet. Als sie bei weiteren Obduktionen Ungereimtheiten feststellt, kommt sie einem verborgenen Geheimnis auf die Spur. Doch ihre dunklen Vorahnungen werden von niemandem ernst genommen. Lisa bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln und bringt sich damit in tödliche Gefahr.

Wie fühlt es sich eigentlich an, wenn man all seine Träume verwirklicht hat? Was passiert, wenn man am Ziel ankommt und es sich ganz anders anfühlt als erträumt? Und was soll man machen, wenn nach einer Auswanderung den einen das Heimweh packt und die andere so glücklich ist wie nie zuvor? Dieser Erfahrungsbericht ist die Geschichte der vierköpfigen Familie der Autorin vom Ankommen in Schweden, vom Haus am Fluss und vom Leben auf ihrem Selbstversorgerhof in Südschweden.