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I have this book of various speeches given by women.
Women at the Podium: Memorable Speeches in History
>The women include Queen Elizabeth I, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Thatcher, Frances Harper, Margaret Chase Smith, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Helen Keller, Barbara Jordan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meir, Benazir Bhutto, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Katharine Graham, Barbara Bush, Elizabeth Dole, Hillary Rodham Clinton, & many others.
You can read just one speech at a time and get a sense of who she was and what she cared about.
The one that I still remember reading years later was the Sojourner Truth speech.
>She challenged the idea that women were inferior because Christ was a man.
>“Where did Christ come from,” she demands, and in answer to her own question, she cries: “From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with it.”