List of Speakers

Gifts of Speech is organized primarily by chronology, but the list below allows for searching by speaker’s name. You can also search by topic, location, or organization via the search function in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

Robin Abrams — Vice President, Apple Computer Corporation

• Looking at Technology Through Women’s Eyes – Speech at the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China,August 31, 1995.

Bella Abzug — U.S. Congresswoman

• Plenary Speech, Fourth World Congress on Women, Beijing, China, September 12, 1995.

Jane Addams — American Social Reformer & Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

• “Portrait Monument” Dedication – February 15, 1921.

Susanne Agnelli — Foreign Minister of Italy

• Remarks to the Vital Voices Conference – July 9, 1997.

Madeleine Albright — U.S. Secretary of State

• Building a Bipartisan Foreign Policy – An address to Rice University, February 7, 1997.
• Statement before the House International Relations Committee – February 11, 1997.
• Speech on NATO Expansion – February 18, 1997
• American Leadership for the 21st Century – Jesse Helms Lecture, Wingate University — March 25, 1997
• Harvard University Commencement Address – June 5, 1997
• Remarks to the American Business Community in Vietnam – Equatorial Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, June 28, 1997.
• Remarks at the Jewish Museum – Prague, Czech Republic — July 13, 1997.
• Address to the People of Prague– July 14, 1997.

Jane Alexander — Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts

• Commencement Speech – Duke University — May 12, 1996
• Remarks at the Americans for the Arts Annual Congress – Minneapolis, MN, June 9, 1997

Susan Allen — First Lady of Virginia

• Fighting Breast Cancer in Virginia – A press release from 1996

Helen Alvare — Director of Planning for Pro-Life Activities for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops

• Partial-Birth Abortion: the Truth – Testimony Given before Joint Congressional Committee Hearing –March 11, 1997

Hanan Al-Shaykh — Lebanese Author

• The New Shahrazad – A lecture in Sweet Briar College World Writers Series – March 15, 2000

Christiane Amanpour — British Journalist

• Radio-Television News Directors Association Keynote Speech, 2000 Murrow Awards Ceremony – September 13, 2000

Blanche Ames Ames — American Suffragist, Inventor, Artist, and Birth Control Advocate

• Statement by the President of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts – January 1935

Mary Anderson — Director, United States Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor

• Radio Speeches – February 22, 1942

Maya Angelou — American Poet

• On the Pulse of Morning – Poem delivered at the Inauguration of President Clinton – January, 1993

Susan B. Anthony — American Suffragist/ Pioneer for Women’s Rights

• Speech after Being Convicted of Voting – 1873
• Declaration of Rights for Women – 1876

Corazon Aquino — Former President of the Philippines

• Speech upon Receipt of the Fulbright Prize – Washington, DC, October 11, 1996

Louise Arbour — Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda

• Remarks to the Vital Voices Conference – July 11, 1997

Brook Astor — Administrator of the Astor Foundation

• Address to the German Society – April 22, 1981

Margaret Atwood — Canadian Author

• Spotty-Handed Villainesses: Problems of Female Bad Behaviour in the Creation of Literature – 1994 lecture

Diana Aviv — Council of Jewish Federations Administrator

• Restructuring of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service – May 21, 1998 speech

Mary L. Azcuenaga — Commissioner, U.S. Federal Trade Commission

• Deceptive Environmental Claims: How Should the Federal Trade Commission Clean up Advertising Pollution? – Speech before the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association, November 15, 1990

Kathleen C. Bailey — Senior Fellow, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

• Statement on Nuclear Deterrence before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee – March 31,1998

Sarah Bain — Jury Forewoman, United States v. Members of the Branch Davidian Religious Sect

• Speech at the 1998 Memorial Service at Mount Carmel, Texas, on the Fifth Anniversary of the Massacre at the Branch Davidian Church – April 19, 1998

Emily Greene Balch — 2nd Female to Win Noble Peace Prize

• Toward Human Unity, Or Beyond Nationalism – Nobel Lecture, Oslo, April 7, 1948

Somaia Barghouti — Counsellor, Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the U.N.

• Statement before the 43rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 1999

Megan Barry — Senior Ethics Advisor, Nortel Corporation

• Corporate Responsibility at Home and Abroad – Testimony before U. S. House of Representatives, June 6, 1996

Charlene Barshefsky — U.S. Trade Representative

• The Case of China’s WTO Accession – The Olin Distinguished Lecture in National Security Issues at the United States Military Academy, West Point
• Director’s Forum Lecture on Trade and Development – the Peace Corps, Washington, DC, June 20, 2000
• Foreign Affairs Briefing to the National Conference of Editorial Writers at the U.S. Department of State -March 10, 2000

Katharine Bartlett — Law Professor, Duke University

• Women in the Legal Profession – No date was supplied for this speech

Eleanor Baum — Electrical Engineering Educator

• Women in Engineering – April 23, 1991 speech

Carol Bellamy — Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund

• 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – New York, 11 November, 1999 speech

Sharon Sayles Belton — Mayor of Minneapolis, MN

• Inaugural Address – January 3, 1994

Catherine Bertini — Executive Director, World Food Programme, United Nations Security Council

• Security of UN Humanitarian and Associated Personnel – 9 February 2000 speech

Marie-Andree Bertrand – Chair, Canadian Commission of Inquiry

• Cannabis: The Report of the Canadian Government Commission of lnquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs – 1972

Judith A. Best — Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at State University of New York at Cortland

• Testimony on Proposals for Electoral College Reform – Dr. Best defends the federal principle in the electoral vote system.

Benazir Bhutto — Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

• Remarks at Joint Appearance with U.S. President Bill Clinton – April 11, 1995
• Speech at the John F. Kennedy School of Government – November 7, 1997

Anne K. Bingaman — Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

• Competition and Innovation: Bedrock of the American Economy – Speech before the University of Kansas Law School -­ September 19, 1996

Nancy Birdsall — Executive Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank

• On Growth and Poverty Reduction – Remarks at the Conference on Poverty Reduction — February 8, 1997
• Remarks on Equity Issues in a Globalizing World – IMF Conference on Economic Policy and Equity, Washington, D.C. — June 8, 1998
• Sharing Prosperity and Power: A New Partnership for the New Millennium – Remarks at the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China – September, 1995

Bronwyn Bishop — Minister for Defense Industry, Government of Australia

• Address to the 1855 Dinner – RAAF Williamstown — July 26, 1997

Marion C. Blakey — Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration

• It’s Not About Politics. It’s About Aviation – Speech at AAAE Conference– March 27, 2007

Mrs. T. J. Blankert van Veen — Head of the Department for Resistance Members, Victims of Persecution and Civilian Victims of War, Netherlands Ministry of Health

• Holocaust Era Remembrance and Victim Support – Speech at Holocaust Symposium, Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets, December 2, 1998

Deborah Blum — Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Communicating Science and Engineering in a Sound Bite World – Testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science

Sissela Bok — Philosopher and Writer

• At the Juncture of Theory and Practice – Remarks on Receiving the Henry Knowles Beecher Award

Helen Boosalis — American Association of Retired Persons

• Statement Before the United States Congress on Social Security – No date was available for this speech

Anita Borg — Digital Equipment Corporation

• Where We Are and Where We Are Going – Remarks to the Women in Engineering Conference, Berkeley, California

Janet G. Bostwick — Minister of Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth of the Bahamas

• Statement at the Ottawa Conference on the Global Ban on Landmines – December, 1997

Sarah Brady — United States Gun Control Activist

• Remarks at the Signing of the Brady Gun Control Bill — November 30, 1993

Aurelia E. Brazeal — Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, U.S.A.

• Statement Regarding the 1997 Crisis in Cambodia — Presented before the House International Relations Committee — July 16, 1997

Molly Corbett Broad — President, University of North Carolina

• Inaugural Address — April 29, 1998

Corrine Brown — U.S. Congresswoman

• Remarks Concerning the Death of Chaim Herzog — May 13, 1997
• Speech on Recognition of the ABL and the WNBA — June 17, 1997

Dale S. Brown — Self-Help Advocate

• Self-Help: Key to Empowerment – Address to the First National Forum on Peer Support Programs to Promote independent Living and Career Development

Helen Gurley Brown — Author, Editor, Publisher

• Speech upon Receipt of the Henry Johnson Fisher Award – Gurley Brown offers her take on the Internet and the enduring relevance of the print media.

Melinda Brown — Vice President and General Counsel, Lotus Development Corporation

• Testimony before the Judiciary Committee Concerning the Need for Strong, Legal Computer Encryption – Ms. Brown speaks to Congress on behalf of the Business Software Alliance.

Regina C. Brown — Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

• Is there Still a Foreign Policy of the U.S. toward Africa? Remarks at the 39th International Seminar for Diplomats – Brown outlines United States policy goals for the continent of Africa.

Carol Browner — Head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

• The Common Sense Initiative: A New Generation of Environmental Protection – speech announcing changes in direction for the EPA
• Legislative Reform of Superfund in the 105th Congress – Statement Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — February 12, 1997
• Proposed Revisions to Air Quality Standards – Statement Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — February 12, 1997

Gro Harlem Brundtland — Director-General, World Health Organization, Geneva

• International Consultation on the Health of Indigenous Peoples – 23 November 1999

Pearl Buck — American Writer/Nobel Laureate

• The Chinese Novel – Her Nobel Lecture from December 12, 1938.

Mary Brown Bullock — President of Agnes Scott College

• Inaugural Address – delivered April 19, 1996

Barbara Bush — First Lady of the United States

• Choices and Change – Remarks at Wellesley College Commencement, Friday, June 1, 1990.

Laura Bush — First Lady of Texas (and later, First Lady of the United States)

• Speech to the Republican National Convention – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – July 31, 2000 

Becky Cain — President, United States League of Women Voters

• Testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Constitution: Proposals for Electoral College Reform – Ms. Cain proposes a Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College, thus allowing for direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

Nora Callahan — November Coalition Representative

• Speech at the Drug Peace Day Rally – A speech in opposition to the United States’ War on Drugs

Joan Brown Campbell — General Secretary, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA

• Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Concerning the Burned Churches Project – Reverend Campbell provides the U.S. Congress with an update on the Burned Churches project.

Hattie Caraway — Second Woman U. S. Senator

• The Lend-Lease Bill Address – February 27, 1941

Kelly H. Carnes — Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, U.S. Department of Commerce

• Expanding Women’s Role in Science and Technology – A speech from March 26, 1998

Rosalynn Carter — First Lady of the United States

• Remarks by Rosalynn Carter, Honorary Chair of Last Acts – on caregiving for the elderly

Paula Casey — American Women’s Issues Advocate

• A Legacy of Leadership: Tennessee’s Pivotal Role in Granting All American Women the Vote – The 1995 fall commencement address at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville recounts a pivotal moment in American suffragist history.

Carrie Chapman Catt — Suffrage Leader

• The Crisis – September 7, 1916
• Address to the United States Congress – November, 1917
• A Message to Sweet Briar College: The Woman’s Century, 1820-1920: the 1936 spring commencement address at Sweet Briar College recounts a century of milestones in American suffragist history.

Mary Cavanaugh — Health Systems Analyst, VA Medical Center, Lyons, New Jersey

• Statement on Sexual Harassment in the Veterans Administration – Ms. Cavanaugh describes widespread sexual harassment in the United States Veterans Administration.

Linda Chavez-Thompson — Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO

• ACORN Convention – an address to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
• City Club of Cleveland – On the “new Internationalism”
• Hate Crimes in America – the AFL-CIO strongly supports the Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Renee Chelian — President, National Coalition of Abortion Providers

• Testimony Before Joint U.S. Congressional Committee: “Partial Birth Abortion: the Truth” – Ms. Chelian argues against a legislative ban on “partial birth” abortions.

Helen Chenoweth — United States Congresswoman

• The Dangers of the Proposal of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to introduce grizzly bears into Idaho – Ms. Chenoweth speaks out against grizzly bears being reintroduced to the Idaho wilderness.
• Statement to Feminists for Life of America – Ms. Chenoweth speaks at the 25th anniversary of Feminists for Life of America.

Phyllis Chesler — Psychologist, Author, and Activist Against Anti-Semitism

• The Global Intifada – Dr. Chesler speaks out against new anti-Semitism

Shirley Chisholm — US Representative from New York

• Equal Rights for Women – A speech from 1969

Rachelle Chong — Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

• Interesting Times at the FCC: Remarks to Bridging Digital Technologies and Regulatory Paradigms Conference – Ms. Chong speaks of the FCC’s role in relation to emerging communicationstechnologies.
• Remarks at the 1997 National Association of Broadcasters Radio Convention – Ms. Chong reviews her career as an FCC commissioner.
• Remarks at the Federal Communications Commission’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Observance Day – Ms. Chong speaks of her Asian-American heritage.

Jamie Rappaport Clark — Nominee for Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• Testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Ms. Clark discusses her plans and goals for the Fish and Wildlife service at her nomination hearing.

Eileen B. Claussen — Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs

• Address Before the 26th Annual American Law institute – Remarks concerning evolving international environmental law.
• Remarks Before the Chatham House Workshop on Multinational Corporations and Global Environmental Change – Ms. Claussen addresses the role multinational corporations can take to help preserve and protect the global environment.

Joan Claybrook — Safety Coalition Activist

• Statement on ISTEA Reauthorization – Ms. Claybrook asks Congress for funding to promote highway safety.

Eva Clayton — United States Congresswoman

• Teen Pregnancy Prevention – the Congresswoman calls for a national dialogue on religious and community values to help prevent teen pregnancies.

Cathy Cleaver — Director of Legal Policy, Family Research Council

• Testimony before U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee: Combating Crimes Against Children Facilitated by the Internet – Ms. Cleaver tells Congress of pedophiles and related dangers that await unsupervised children on the Internet.

Hillary Clinton — U. S. Secretary of State; Former First Lady of the United States

• Commencement Speech, Wellesley College – May 31, 1969.
• Remarks for the World Health Organization Forum on Women and Health Security – A speech delivered in Beijing on September 5, 1995
• Women’s Rights Are Human Rights – Remarks to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Plenary Session in Beijing, China, 5 September 1995
• Concession Speech – Friday June 7, 2008 to concede the Democratic Presidential nomination to Barack Obama.
• Remarks on the Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century – December 14, 2009

Elouise Cobell — Executive Director, Blackfeet Reservation Development Fund

• Testimony on the Special Trustee’s Strategic Plan – Ms. Cobell speaks out against federal mismanagement of the Indian trust funds and trust assets

Barbara S. Cochran — President, Radio-Television News Directors Association

• Concerning Media and Personal Privacy – Ms. Cochran speaks out against the proposed Protection from Personal intrusion Act

Cindy A. Cohn — Lead Counsel, Bernstein v. Department of Justice, et al.

• Testimony on Encryption as Constitutionally Protected Speech: U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, And Privacy Rights – Ms. Cohn presents the case that computer encryption algorithms are a form of speech protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and thus are not subject to regulation or censorship.

Colonel Eileen Collins — United States Astronaut, Commander, STS-93

• Remarks at the White House on Being Named the First United States Woman to Command a Manned Space Flight – Commander Collins speaks of the honor of being the first American woman to command a Space Shuttle Mission.

Rita Colwell — Director, National Science Foundation

• Speech to the Science Writers Association – September 8, 1998.
• Turning the Clock Forward – Speech to the Computing Research Association Conference

France Anne Cordova — NASA Chief Scientist

• Our Next Century in Space – Opening Address to the U.S. Space Foundation, Colorado Springs, April 4, 1995
• Space Physics and the Changing National Landscape – Luncheon Keynote Speech to the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) – May 30, 1995
• Women in Science: Celebrating Achievements, Charting Challenges: Keynote for National Science Foundation Conference, December 13, 1995

Judith Crist — Film Critic

• The Critical Years – Judith Crist discusses how she became a film critic.

Barbara Cubin — United States Congresswoman

• On Wyoming Grazing Privileges. The Congresswoman makes the case for extending grazing privileges on federal lands to the heirs of deceased ranchers.

Marie Sklodowska Curie — French Chemist/Nobel Laureate

• Radium and the New Concepts in Chemistry – Nobel lecture from 1911.
• On the Discovery of Radium: from a talk at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, May 14, 1921.

Irene Joliot-Curie — French Chemist/Nobel Laureate

• Artificial Production of Radioactive Elements: Nobel lecture from 1935.

Josephine M. D’Antonio — President, Grandparents’ Court

• Statement before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property – – April 23, 1998

Mrs. Asha Das — Secretary, Department of Women and Child Development, India

• Statement to the Commission on the Status of Women – Statements in the 53rd Session of the GeneralAssembly, Commission on Status of Women General Debate at the United Nations, March 6, 1998

Jacquelynn Davis –Victims’ Rights Advocate

• Testimony in Support of a Constitutional Amendment for Victims Rights to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary – Ms. Davis describes the difficulties victims of domestic abuse often encounter in thelegal system.

Lucinda Davis — U.S. Citizen/Former Slave

• Oral History of Her Days as a Slave – Ms. Davis describes her childhood in Oklahoma for the WPA Writers Project Ex-Slave Narratives. From American Life Histories.

Paulina W. Davis — American abolitionist, suffragist and educator

• 1851 Women’s Rights Convention: Report of the Committee on Education. Policy statement on the right of women to educational opportunities.

Shelley L. Davis — Former internal Revenue Service Historian

• Statement Concerning Internal Revenue Service Abuses Before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee – Ms. Davis outlines the history of IRS abuses and mistreatments of taxpayers.

Margaretha de Boer — Former Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, the Netherlands

• Managing Places and Spaces for Living in the 21st Century – Perspectives from the Netherlands on Becoming Sustainable from a 1998 speech

Ada Deer — U.S. Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs

• Statement before the Joint Hearing of the House Resources Committee and Senate Committee on Indian Affairs – Assistant Secretary Deer discusses the Indian Child Welfare Act

Diana DeGette — Colorado Congresswoman

• The Value of a Liberal Arts Education – Colorado College Opening Convocation Address – August 31, 1998

Rosa L. Delauro — United States Congresswoman

• Honoring the “Amistad” and Connecticut’s Role in the Underground Railroad – Remarks beforeCongress.

Dorothy Denning — Professor, Chair of Computer Science, Georgetown University

• Testimony Concerning Computer Encryption and the “Clipper Chipper” Before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation – Denning makes a casefor including a chip in computers that would allow the government a way to decrypt information that computer users have encoded.

Princess Diana — Princess of Wales and Anti-Landmine Activist

• Does the Community Care? – from 17th November 1993, on the website of her personal communications manager
• On Eating Disorders – from 27th April 1993, on the website of her personal communications manager
• Responding To Landmines: A Modern Tragedy and Its Consequences – A Keynote Address from June12, 1997
• Speech at the Headway Luncheon – 3rd December 1993, on the website of her personal communications manager
• Women and Children with AIDS – from 1st June 1993, on the website of her personal communicationsmanager
• Women and Mental Health – from 1st June 1993, on the website of her personal communicationsmanager

Nancy W. Dickey — President, American Medical Association

• Packing my Bag for the Road Ahead – 1998 Presidential Inauguration Address, American Medical Association.

Catherine Jay Didion — Executive Director, Association of Women in Science

• Testimony to the Subcommittee on Technology and the Subcommittee on Basic Research – Before theU.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC, March 10, 1998.

Jeanne Diebolt — Former United States Military Nurse

• Keynote Address at the Vietnam War Women Veterans Memorial – Diebolt remembers her service as anurse during the Vietnam War.

Takako Doi — Japanese Social Democrat/Speaker of the Lower House of the Diet

• Politics Has Cast a Shadow Over Hope – An excerpt of her speech at the Future of Hope InternationalConference which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Elizabeth Dole — President of the American Red Cross/Wife of Senator Bob Dole

• Address to the John F. Kennedy School of Government
• This Is a Defining Moment in Our Nation’s History – an address to the 1996 Republican National Convention in support of her husband’s Presidential campaign

Barbara Dooley — Executive Director, Commercial Internet Exchange Association

• Statement Before the Subcommittee on Basic Research, House Science Committee – Dooley discusses internet backbones and the challenges that the growth of the internet poses for private industry and government.

Helen Gahagan Douglas — Congresswoman from California

• My Democratic Credo — U.S. House of Representatives – March. 29, 1946.

Elizabeth Dowdeswell — Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme

• If We Cooperate, We Can Succeed – Geneva, Austria, August 22, 1994.

Jennifer Dunn — U.S. Congresswoman

• Condemning the Bombing Outside the Mercer Island Jewish Community Center – Dunn condemns violence against Jews on U.S. soil.
• The Republican Tax Cut Plan: Its Direct lmpact on Women and Families – GOPAC’s National Town Hall Satellite meeting on September 28, 1996
• Statement on the Introduction of the Software Export Equity Act – Dunn calls for free and fair trade in the international software industry.
• What the GOP has done for women – a speech given dozens of times during the 1996 campaign on behalf of male Republican Congressional candidates to help with the “gender gap”.

Tempie Herndon Durham — U.S. Citizen/Former slave

• Oral History of Her Days As A Slave – Ms. Durham recalls her years as a slave in North Carolina forthe WPA Writers Project Ex-Slave Narratives.

Andrea Dworkin — American Feminist Activist and Writer

• Pornography Happens to Women – Delivered at a conference entitled “Speech, Equality and Harm:Feminist Legal Perspectives on Pornography and Hate Propaganda” at the University of Chicago Law School on March 6, 1993.
• Prostitution and Male Supremacy – a speech given at a symposium entitled “Prostitution: From Academia to Activism” at the University of Michigan Law School, October 31, 1992.
• Terror, Torture and Resistance – Keynote speech given at the Canadian Mental Health Association’s”Women and Mental Health Conference–Women in a Violent Society” held in Banff, Alberta in May of1991.

Esther Dyson — Interim Chairman, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

• Comments on Internet Rating System Proposed by Bertelsmann Foundation – September 10, 1999 to the Summit to Discuss Global System for Rating internet Content 

Susan Eckerly — Director, Federal Government Relations, National Federation of independent Business

• Statement Concerning Superfund Cleanup Legislation before the U.S. Senate Environment and PublicWorks Committee – Suggestions for reforming the bureaucracy surrounding “Superfund” environmental clean-up activities.

Marian Wright Edelman — Children’s Rights Advocate

• Colorado College Baccalaureate Address – May 16, 1999
• Standing Up for the World’s Children: Leave No Child Behind – Edelman implores America and theworld to devote more resources to children.

Barbara Ehrenreich — Political Essayist and Social Critic

• Never Give Up: Speech at the Breaking Bread Forum – November 10, 1997

Maryam Elahi — Spokeswoman, Amnesty International

• Statement Concerning Human Rights Violations in Northern Ireland, before the U.S. House International Relations Subcommittee – Elahi outlines British Human Rights abuses in Northern Ireland.

Joycelyn Elders, M.D. — United States Surgeon General

• Confirmation Statement of U.S. Surgeon General before the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee – Elders’ statement at her confirmation hearing.
• Statement on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor Appropriations – Elders describes the impact adolescent pregnancies have on society.
• Statement on Secondhand Smoke and Children Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment – Elders cites the alleged dangers of secondhand tobacco smoke on children.
• Statement on Television Violence Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance – Elders speaks out against violence on television.

Gertrude B. Elion — American Chemist/Nobel Laureate

• The Purine Path to Chemotherapy – Nobel Lecture from 1988

Queen Elizabeth II — Queen of the United Kingdom

• On the Death of Princess Diana – Queen Elizabeth’s televised statement, 1997
• On the Opening of Parliament – Queen Elizabeth outlines her vision for the Government in the year of1997

Anna G. Eshoo — United States Congresswoman

• Introduction of the Computer Donation Incentive Act – Eshoo proposes tax breaks for businesses that donate surplus computer equipment for educational purposes.
• Progress Report on Women’s Health – Eshoo argues for funding for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction surgery for cancer survivors.

Susan Esserman — General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

• United States-Vietnam Relations – A status report on trade relations between the United States and Vietnam.

Susan Faludi — U.S. Author & Feminist

• Scenes from the Betrayal of the American Man – A speech to the Commonwealth Club of California

Diane Feinstein — U.S. Senator

• China: Where Do We Go from Here? – on China’s status as “Most Favored Nation” by the United States

Geraldine Ferraro — U.S. Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee

• Inspiration from the Land Where Dreams Come True – speech accepting the Democratic vicepresidential nomination as delivered at the Democratic National Convention, in San Francisco 

Linda S. Fink — Associate Professor of Biology, Sweet Briar College

• Speech to First Year Students after Outward Bound Afternoon – A short inspirational message to students upon completion of their Outward Bound experience.

Mary Fisher — AIDS Activist

• A Whisper of AIDS: Address to the Republican National Convention – August 19, 1992 – Houston, Texas

Mrs. Maria De Los Angeles Florez — Deputy Foreign Minister, Democratic Republic of Cuba

• Address to the Ottawa Conference on Antipersonnel Land Mines – Florez states her government’s willingness to sign an international treaty banning landmines once United States troops are withdrawn from Guantanamo Bay.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn — Labor Activist

• Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) – DeKalb, Illinois, November 8, 1962

Jane Fonda — American Actress, Political Activist

• Broadcast over Radio Hanoi to American Servicemen involved in the Indochina War – Fonda’s 1972 broadcast from Hanoi asserting the futility of continued United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

Nicole Fontaine — President of the European Parliament

• Knesset Speech – February 21, 2000

Abby Kelley Foster — American Abolitionist and Radical Social Reformer

• Address to National Woman’s Rights Convention – October 15-16, 1851

Marye Anne Fox — Chancellor, North Carolina State University

• Acceptance Speech Before the Board of Governors, North Carolina University System – Fox outlines three visions for the future of North Carolina State University.

Louise Frechette — Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

• Building a World Community – Hendrik Brugman Memorial Lecture, 2000
• On the Protection of United Nations and Associated Personnel and Humanitarian Personnel in ConflictZones – 9 February 2000

Betty Friedan — American Feminist, Author and Activist

• Judge Carswell and the “Sex Plus” Doctrine – Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee – 1970

Sonia Fuentes — Feminist attorney/Author

• The Legal Revolution in the Employment Rights of Women in the United States since the Mid-Sixties – A talk at Cornell, April 12, 2000

Kathryn Fuller — Conservationist/Lawyer

• Charting New Courses for Global Conservation – World Affairs Council of Portland — June 11, 1996
• Conserving Nature – from the “Ecology and Spirituality” Conference at National Cathedral — October2, 1993
• Women Making a Difference for Conservation – delivered at the “Women Making a Difference for the Environment” Conference at Chatham College — April 18, 1995

Frances D. Gage — Suffragist/ Women’s Rights Pioneer

• First Address to the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association – a speech that covers topics from the oppression of slave women to general women’s rights from May 9, 1867 -morning session
• Second Address to the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association – a speech that covers topics from temperance to suffrage for women from May 9, 1867 – evening session
• Third Address to the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association – a speech that coverswomen’s rights topics from May 10, 1867 – evening session

Matilda Joslyn Gage — Women’s Rights Pioneer

• On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women – On the current state of women’s education in 1871.

Eilene Galloway — Aerospace Pioneer/NASA Advisory Committee on the International Space Station

• Organizing the United States Government for Outer Space: 1957-1958 – Galloway spoke at the Smithsonian Institute.
• Speech on the Occasion of Receiving an Honorary Degree as Doctor of Laws – Galloway returns to her alma mater of Swarthmore.

Indira Gandhi — Prime Minister of India

• Martin Luther King – Speech at the Presentation of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for InternationalUnderstanding to Coretta Scott King – New Delhi, India: January 24, 1969
• True Liberation of Women – Speech at the Inauguration of the All-India Women’s Conference BuildingComplex, New Delhi, India: March 26, 1980
• What Educated Women Can Do – Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Indraprastha College for Women,Delhi, India – November 23, 1974

Margaret J. Geller — American Astrophysicist

• The Sense of Wonder – Harvard Commencement, June 1995

Nancy Gertner – U.S. District Court Judge

• Is the Drug War Forever? – Boston, Massachusetts, January 29, 1998

Kathie Lee Gifford — American Entertainer

• Testimony Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on International Organizations and Human Rights – Mrs. Gifford talks about procedures that can discourage over-seas companies from using child labor

Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

• Speech at the Annual Dinner of the American Law institute – Justice Ginsburg discusses various procedures of the Supreme Court

Susan Golding — Mayor of San Diego, CA

• Inaugural Address – San Diego, California — December 7, 1992
• The Door to Our Future – State of the City Address from San Diego, California — January 14, 1993
• Second Annual Address – State of the City Address from San Diego, California — January 13, 1994
• The San Diego Renaissance – State of the City Address from San Diego, California — January 5, 1995
• A City of Neighborhoods – State of the City Address from San Diego, California — January 10, 1996

Emma Goldman –Anarchist

• Address to the Jury – July 9, 1917.
• Speech Against Conscription and War – Another anti-war speech from 1917.
• Speech at a Meeting of the No-Conscription League – June 4, 1917
• We Don’t Believe in Conscription – Speech Delivered at the Harlem River Casino, New York City, May 18, 1917
• An Anarchist Looks at Life: Speech Before the Foyle’s Twenty-Ninth Literary Luncheon – A speech delivered in 1933.

Sherri W, Goodman — Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security

• Department of Defense Helps Protect Human Health, Environment – How the United States military addresses community environmental concerns.

Major Barbara A. Goodno — United States Army officer

• American Women in the Military – A speech delivered on Veteran’s Day, 1993.

Doris Kearns Goodwin — American Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian

• Landon Lecture – April 22, 1997

Eva Persson Goransson — State Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden

• Statement to the Plenary Session of the General Assembly – from 4 October 1999

Nadine Gordimer — South African Writer/Nobel Laureate

• Writing and Being – Her Nobel Lecture from December 7, 1991.

Tipper Gore — Wife of the Vice-President of the United States

• Remarks at the Launch of the HHS Children’s National Mental Health initiative – March 5, 1996
• Discovering our Selves: The Science of Emotion – Project on the Decade of the Brain, Keynote Address

Jamie Gorelick — Former United States Deputy Attorney General

• Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Concerning Computer Encryption – Gorelick argues that strong computer encryption would be dangerous in the hands of criminals or potential criminals.
• Testimony Concerning Counterterrorism Legislation – A 1995 plea for expanded government law enforcement powers to investigate domestic and foreign terrorism.

Phyllis Greenberger — Executive Director, Society for the Advancement of Women’s Health Research

• Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee – Greenberger argues for a more female-centered approach to women’s health research.

Ellen Greenlee — President, National Legal Aid and Defender Association

• Testimony Before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on the Proposed Victims’ Rights Constitutional Amendment – Greenlee argues that a Constitutional Amendment granting special rightsto victims of crimes would cripple the United States legal system.

Roberta L. Gross — Inspector General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Statement Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate – Gross lays out the future prospects for NASA in an era of reduced funding and bureaucratic reform initiatives. 

Joy Hakim — Textbook Author

• Remarks – Upon Receipt of the 1997 Michener Prize in Writing

Mayor Susan Hammer — Mayor of San Jose

• State of the City 1996 – From February 1997

Ellen Hancock — Former Executive President of Technology at Apple Computer, Inc.

• National Association of Broadcasters MultiMedia World Conference Keynote Address – Hancock discusses the advantages of Apple’s QuickTime application

Pauline Hanson — Representative, Australian House of Representatives; Leader, One Nation Party

• Maiden Speech Before the Australian Parliament – Hanson decries what she believes is reverse racism on the part of Australian Aboriginals.

Frances E. W. Harper — Women’s Rights Pioneer

• Enlightened Motherhood – A speech from November 15, 1892.

Florence J. Harriman — American Socialite, Suffragist, Social Reformer and Diplomat

• Pond’s Radio: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman – Plea to Women for International Peace – February, 1931
• Woman and War – Urging support of Britian against Hitler – 1941
• American – Soviet Friendship – Call for tolerance of Soviet allies due to their huge sacrifices in World War II – 1944

Jo Ann Harris — Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

• Testimony Concerning the Key Escrow Encryption Program Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee onTechnology and the Law – A 1994 speech on the evils of computer encryption in criminal hands.

Judith Rich Harris — Psychologist

• Don’t Blame Your Parents – Award address presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, August 15, 1998.

Ronda Hauben — Internet Pioneer

• The Evolution of Usenet News: The Poor Man’s Arpanet. Speech Presented at MACUL – A speech from 1993 describing the evolution of USENET.

Adelle Hazlett — American Women’s Rights Pioneer

• Speech Endorsing Women’s Enfranchisement – A speech from 1850.

Bernadine Healy — Former Director, National institutes of Health and the American Red Cross

• Major Address – Sept 25, 1992 at the National institutes of Health

Ginette Hemley — Director, International Wildlife Policy, World Wildlife Fund of the United States

• Saving Two of the World’s Most Treasured Species: The African Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 and the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 – A progress report on Elephant conservation efforts.

Alexis Herman — U.S. Secretary of Labor

• Keynote: An Academic Search for Sweatshop Solutions – A speech outlining efforts to eradicate sweatshops.
• Remarks to the U.S. Conference of Mayors – A speech from June 24, 1997.

Judith E. Heumann — Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

• Remarks at the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Bill Signing Ceremony – Heumann speaks on the potential of disabled children and the role they will play in shaping the future of the United States.

Katherine Lund Hicks — Victim of IRS abuses

• Statement Before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee Oversight Hearing on the Internal Revenue Service – Hicks describes harassment she suffered from the United States Internal Revenue Service.

Anita Hill — Former Law Professor at the University of Oklahoma

• Opening Statement: Sexual Harassment Hearing – Professor Hill testifies against Judge Clarence Thomas’ appointment in 1991

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — British Chemist/Nobel Laureate

• The X-ray Analysis of Complicated Molecules – Nobel lecture from 1964

Ms. Holmes — US citizen/Former slave

• Father Gave Her to His White People – Ms. Holmes describes her childhood during and after the US CivilWar for the WPA Writers Project Ex-Slave Narratives. From American Life Histories.

Isabella Beecher Hooker — American Women’s Rights Pioneer

• The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States – A speech from 1883.

Marguerite Rivera Houze — Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, And Migration

• Remarks on Vietnamese-American Appreciation and Celebration Day – Houston, Texas, July 25, 1999

Shirley M. Hufstedler — Chair, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform

• The Final Report of the Commission on Immigration Reform – Suggestions for immigration reform in theUnited States.

Ellen Hurwitz — President of Albright College

• Inaugural Address – May 1, 1993

Andrea Ireland — Associate General Counsel, Netscape Communications Corporation

• Concerning the Internet Tax Freedom Act – Ireland explains the Internet to Congress and gives reasonswhy it should not be taxed.

Molly Ivins — Political Columnist

• Progressives: Have Fun While Ye May – A Speech at the Alliance for Democracy foundingconvention

Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson — First Lady, United States of America

• New Horizons for Women: Address to the National Convention of American Home EconomicsAssociation – A speech delivered June 24, 1964.
• Remarks to the Bohemian Club – A speech on wildflower preservation delivered February 14, 1990.
• A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt: Address to the First Anniversary Luncheon of the Eleanor RooseveltMemorial Foundation – A speech from April 9, 1964.

Anita Jones — Director of Defense Research and Engineering, United States Department of Defense

• Keynote Speech, First Grace Hopper Conference Celebrating Women in Computing – Delivered June 9, 1994

Erica Jong — American Author

• Address to the ACLU Substantive Plenary on Free speech – A speech against censorship from 1995

Barbara Jordan — U.S. Congresswoman

• Change: From What to What? – Keynote Address to the 1992 Democratic National Convention
• Keynote Address – From the Democratic National Convention of 1976
• Proceedings on the lmpeachment of Richard Nixon – Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee from 1973

Jo Jorgensen — Libertarian Party 1996 Vice-Presidential Candidate

• Why Republican Politicians Keep Selling Out Freedom – Discusses some differences between Republicans and Libertarians

Elena Kagan — U.S. Solicitor General

• Remarks on Nomination as U.S. Supreme Court Justice – with introduction by President Obama. May 10, 2010

Jane Butler Kahle — Director Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education, National Science Foundation

• Teacher Professional Development: Does It Make A Difference in Student Learning? – Testimony to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science – Washington, DC: 1999

Marcy Kaptur — U.S. Congresswoman

• NAFTA Address – delivered August 12, 1995.

Amy Kaslow — Senior Fellow, Council on Competitiveness

• Testimony for the U.S. House Science Committee – Washington, DC: March 17, 1999

Nancy Kassebaum — U.S. Senator, Chairman, Labor and Resources Committee

• The Intersection of Hope and Doubt – Landon Lecture at Kansas State University – Monday, September 9, 1996

Roberta R. Katz — Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Netscape Communications Corporation

• Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Concerning the Security and Freedom through Encryption (SAFE) Act – Katz calls for the abolition of Cold War-era restrictions on the export of strong computer encryption.

Helen Keller — American author and public speaker

• Strike Against War – A speech from 1916 for the Women’s Peace Party.

Nan Keohane — President, Duke University

• Charge to the Class of 1997: Baccalaureate Service – May 17, 1997
• Convocation Address: “What Kind of Freedom?” – Duke University Convocation Address, August 28, 1997.
• Speech Before the Panel on the Value of Diversity in Higher Education, President’s Commission on Race – A call for increased diversity in higher education.
• Work and Personal Life Balance Conference – Keynote Address – January 11, 1995

Bonnie Kestner– Yale Women’s Varsity Swimming Captain 1973-74, Yale Women’s Varsity Swimming Assistant Coach 1974-76

• Parenting and the Future Athlete – on the important role parents play in their children’s athletic development

Callie Khouri — Motion Picture Screenwriter

• Rules To Live By – A commencement speech by the creator of Thelma and Louise from May 22, 1994.

Coretta Scott King — American Civil Rights Activist

• Keynote address at the launching of the historically-black colleges and universities initiative of the AIDS memorial quilt

Mary-Claire King — American Geneticist

• A View from the Far Side of 30 Years at Berkeley – delivered May 22, 1995.

Jeane Kirkpatrick — First Female United States Ambassador to the United Nations

• Comments on Deployment of 25,000 U.S. Troops in Bosnia Herzegovina—Testimony Before the National Security Committee, U.S. House of Representatives – A 1995 speech to Congress opposing the deployment of United States ground troops in Bosnia.
• Has the U.N. Commission on Human Rights Lost Its Course? – A 2001 statement at a hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives

Mrs. Sia Koroma — First Lady of Sierra Leone

• Launching of World Breast Feeding Week and the National Protocol for the Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition – A 2008 speech

Dr. Martha Krebs — Director of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy

• Testimony Concerning the Next Generation Internet Initiative, Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee onScience, Technology, and Space – Plans for the Next Generation Internet, sometimes called Internet II.

Chandrika Bandaranike Kumaratunga — President of Sri Lanka

• Address at the United Nations 50th Anniversary – President Kumaratunga voices her view of the future of the United Nations
• Address To the United Nations World Summit for Social Development – delivered March 12, 1995.
• Keynote Address of the Sri Lanka investment Conference, Japan Chamber of Commerce and lndustry- President Kumaratunga discusses how the economy of Sri Lanka affects its democracy

Aung San Suu Kyi — Human Rights Leader for Burma/1991 Nobel Peace Prize

• Opening Keynote Address – delivered August 31, 1995 in Beijing

Winona LaDuke — Green Party’s Nomination for Vice President of the United States of America

• Acceptance Spoeech – from July 22, 2000

Mary Landrieu — United States Senator

• Commemorating the 30th Anniversary: of the Reunification of Jerusalem – Speech to the U.S. Senate on Jerusalem’s troubled history and hopes for peace.

Frances Moore Lappé — Writer on world hunger and other global issues

• Educating for Democracy: Overcoming a Culture of Powerlessness – Speech Before the Teachers’ College, Columbia University
• The Newsmakers Are Changing: Can Journalists Catch Up? – A presentation by the editor-in-chief and the publisher of the American News Service to the Society of Professional Journalists’ National Convention September 21, 1996, Washington, D.C.
• Reweaving Business into the Social Fabric: New Assumptions about Human Capacities Challenge the Old Order – Speech to Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, December 11, 1997

Joyce C. Lashof– Committee Chair, U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses

• Statement Before the Veterans Affairs Committee – Dr. Lashof speaks for increased government attention to the health concerns of veterans

Brenda Laurel — Founder of Purple Moon, a gaming company for girls

• A Talk to the San Francisco Webgrrls – Ms. Laurel discusses her experiences in the world of computing

Barbara Coombs Lee — Chief Petitioner for Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act

• Testimony Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Constitution Concerning the Legality of AssistedSuicide – in favor of physician-assisted suicide.

Madeleine L’Engle — Author

• Acceptance Speech on receiving the Margaret Edwards Award (American Library Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing in the Field of Young Adult Literature) – June 27, 1998

Denise Levertov — American Poet

• Address to the International Meeting of Writers– on the social responsibilities of writers
• Speech for a Rally – A speech against the Vietnam War delivered at the University of Massachusetts, April 15, 1970
• Statement for a Television Program – on the poet’s obligation to the world

Rita Levi-Montalcini — American Biologist/Nobel Laureate

• Nobel Lecture – the Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later – from December 8, 1986

Judith Lichtman — President, National Partnership for Women & Families

• On Women’s Health Care Access – Dr. Lichtman speaks about managed health care for women

Anna Lindh — Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

• Statement in the General Debate of the 54th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 21 September 1999

Jennifer Long — Revenue Agent, Internal Revenue Service of the United States

• Testimony at the Oversight Hearing on the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance – Ms. Long testifies how the IRS harasses taxpayers.

Katie Louchheim — Democratic Party official and, later, US Department of State official

• Standard Stump Speech – in support of Democratic Party candidates

Nancy Lord — Attorney, M.D., 1992 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential Candidate

• Excerpts From Closing Argument in the Trial of Alternative Health Care Provider Rodger Sless versus the United States Food And Drug Administration, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA – in defense of an alternative health care provider against prosecution by the Food and Drug Administration.

Courtney Love — American Rock Musician and Actress

• Address at Digital Hollywood online Entertainment Conference – on piracy by the major label recording studios and a defense of Napster
• On the Suicide of Her Husband – An extemporaneous speech from April 1994

Clare Boothe Luce — U.S. Congresswoman, Ambassador and Social Activist

• The Role of American Women in Wartime – Speech given September 24, 1942, Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Shannon Lucid — United States Astronaut, Crew Member, Mir 21

• Post-Flight Press Conference Upon Returning from the Russian Space Station Mir – Dr. Lucid describes her record-breaking stay on the Mir space station. 

Wangari Maathai — Kenyan Environmentalist and Human Rights Activist

• Bottle-Necks of Development in Africa – on the Occasion of the 4th UN World Women’s Conference inBeijing, 1995

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo — President of the Philippines

• Gender: Evaluating World Bank Policy – World Bank, Washington, D.C., September 28, 1999
• Statement of VP GMA for the Special Session of UNGASS – Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the Implementation of the World Summit on Social Development and Further Initiatives (UNGASS)
• Towards a Community of Democracies – Community of Democracies Ministerial Meeting, Warsaw,Poland, June 26, 2000

Shirley M. Malcom — Director, Education and Human Resources Programs American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Testimony Concerning Science Education to the U.S. House Committee on Science – from Washington,DC: March 17, 1999

Rosario G. Manalo — Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General, UNESCO

• A Commitment to Nonviolence: A Challenge for the 21st Century – This speech was given either in 1999 or in 2000.

Wilma Mankiller — Former Chief of the Cherokee Nation

• Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation – Chief Mankiller speaks on her evolution to leadership and on the state of the Cherokee Nation

Gill Marcus — Deputy Minister of Finance, South Africa

• On Women in South Africa – on the need to heal a brutalised nation

Laurie Marker — Director, Cheetah Conservation Fund

• The Cheetah’s Race for Survival – at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 21, 2000 for the Barrows Conservation Lecture Series

Mary McAleese — President of Ireland

• Inauguration Speech – November 11, 1997.

Elizabeth McAlister — Co-founder of the Jonah House Community/Peace activist

• Keynote Address to the National Conference on Civil Disobedience – Washington, DC – January 22, 2000

Barbara McClintock — American Biologist, Nobel Laureate

• Nobel Lecture – delivered December 8, 1983.

Patricia A. McGuire — President, Trinity College

• The Enduring Value of Women’s Colleges – a commencement speech from May 25, 1997

Audrey McLaughlin — Canadian Member of Parliament/Former Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada

• The Empowerment of Women: Searching for Genuine Democracy Among the Ashes of Patriarchal Rhetoric. Read for the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity Conference: “Women in Central and Eastern Europe at the Threshold of XXI Century”, Prague, Czech Republic, April 18-20, 1997

Carrie P. Meek — U.S. Congresswoman

• Talking Points· to the International Union of Police Unions (AFL-CIO) on Sunday, July 21, 1996, at Miami Beach, Florida

Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel

• For the attainment of Peace: Address To the Israeli Knesset, Tel Aviv, Israel: 26 May 1970
• Statement Before the General Assembly of the United Nations – New York, NY: January 17, 1957

Rigoberta Menchu Tum — Human Rights Leader for Guatemala/1992 Nobel Peace Prize

• Ante las Acciones Contra la Corrupción y la lmpunidad en Guatemala – Guatemala, 24 de septiembre de 1996, Nobel Lecture – her Nobel Lecture reproduced here with the permission of the Nobel Foundation
• On the International Day of Indigenous Peoples – August 9, 1996
• The problem of racism on the threshold of the 21st Century – Delivered at the Sixth Lascasianas Symposium, May 21, 1996

Tanya Metaksa — Executive Director, National Rifle Association

• Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution – Metaska states that proposedcampaign finance reform would infringe upon First Amendment guarantees of free speech.
• The Threat to Hunting, NRA’s Response and How You Can Help – Why people should oppose huntingbans, even if they are not hunters.

Kate Michelman — President, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League

• Remarks at the Roe v. Wade 25th Anniversary Luncheon – January 22, 1998
• Speech to the Commonwealth Club of California – January 15, 1998
• Testimony Before Joint Congressional Hearing: “Partial Birth Abortion: the Truth” – Michelman defendsthe medical necessity of partial birth abortions.
• Twenty-Four Years After Roe: The Moral Underpinnings of Abortion Politics – Speech Before theNational Press Club, Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Nadezhda Mihailova — Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Bulgaria

• Intensified Dialogue Between NATO And Bulgaria – Address To the 16+1 Meeting, Brussels, Belgium:April 27, 1998.

Barbara Mikulski — U.S. Senator

• Remarks to the Federal Asian Pacific American Council – From May 8, 1996
• Statement at the Character Counts Coalition Summit – Delivered on September 15, 1995

Patsy Mink– U.S. Congresswoman

• The English Language Empowerment Act of 1996 – the Congresswoman’s stance against the Act on Behalf of the Family Stability and Work Act – March 24, 1995
• On Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous Materials Product Liability Reform – February 21, 1995

Susan Molinari — U.S. Congresswoman

• Keynote Speech from the 1996 Republican National Convention

Meredith Monk — American composer

• Sarah Lawrence Commencement speech – May 24, 1985.
• Some Thoughts about Art, America and Jumping off the Cliff – A 1990 speech addressing concerns about the future of the arts in the United States.

Hak Ja Han Moon — President, Women’s Federation for World Peace

• The Central Role of Women in the Ideal World – Mrs. Sun Myung Moon testifies for her husband’s mission
• World Peace and the Role of Women – Mrs. Moon discusses her vision of family responsibility

Constance A. Morella — United States Congresswoman

• Opening Address, NIST International Symposium on the Year 2000 – Morella describes governmentefforts to ensure that critical software is Year 2000 compliant.

Deborah Morris — Minister of Youth Affairs, New Zealand

• Statement at the Ottawa Treaty Signing Conference for A Global Ban on Landmines – Describes therelevance for the Global Landmine treaty for women and children.

Toni Morrison — Nobel Prize in Literature 1993

• Nobel Lecture – Delivered December 7, 1993.

Mother Teresa — Humanitarian/Nobel Peace Prize 1979

• Address to the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C. – February 4, 1994.
• A Message for the World Conference on Women, Beijing, China (read by Mercedes Wilson of theFamily of the Americas) – September, 1995
• Nobel Lecture – December 11, 1979

Lucretia Mott — Women’s Rights Pioneer

• Discourse on Woman – Ms. Mott speaks for women’s rights on December 17, 1849

Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld — Ninth President of Sweet Briar College

• Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash – Presented to the Friends of the Library, Sweet Briar College -April 11,2008
• Educating Daisy: Some Observations on the Education of Women in the Nineteenth Century South –Founder’s Day address from 1996
• Inaugural Address– Delivered April 12, 1997

Herta Müller — 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature

• Nobel Lecture – December 7, 2009

Alva Myrdal — 1982 Nobel Peace Prize

• Nobel Lecture – December 11, 1982

Usha Narayanan — First Lady of India

• While inaugurating the Open Discussions on Development of Women in 50 Years of lndependence – New Delhi, India: March 8, 1998

Susan Ness — Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

• Remarks Before the National Association of Broadcasters Panel, The Road To DTV – Ness discusses the coming Digital Television standards and outlines plans for its adoption.
• Remarks Before the Washington Web Internet Policy Forum – Ness advocates a hands-off governmental approach to the internet.
• From Hype to Reality in the Emerging Digital Age: Remarks Before the Wall Street Journal Technology Summit – October 15, 1997.

Ingrid Newkirk — Co-Founder and President of PETA

• Address to Eleventh Hour- A talk about animal rights which was filmed for the PBS program, EleventhHour.

Mary D. Nichols — Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety; Committee on the Environment and Public Works – Nichols describes new, morestringent air quality standards and how they will be implemented.

Queen Noor — Queen of Jordon

• Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal Ceremony – on the hard work and commitment required bypeace making and peace keeping, 1996
• Address to the World Food Summit – on rural women and food production
• The Challenges of Peace: A Jordanian Perspective – An address given at Harvard on October 8, 1996
• Distinguished Speakers Series of the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives – Her Majesty Queen Noor discusses her experiences as a modern Arab Muslim woman
• Expectations of the Global South – An address given to the Social Summit on October 12, 1994, Copenhagen
• Going International: Career Women and Business–Linking the Middle East, Europe and North Africa – An address given at Drapers Hall, London, October 2, 1995
• IUCN World Conservation Congress – on conservation and the economy of the Middle East
• National Organization of Arab-American Women Banquet Address – on the empowerment of women in Arab cultures
• Pearson College Fund-Raising Dinner – on the importance of multicultural and international education
• Women of Srebrenica Commemoration – Her Majesty Queen Noor addresses the Muslim women ofBosnia

Eleanor Holmes Norton — U.S. Delegate, Washington, D.C.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1997 – Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee onthe Constitution

Gale Norton — Attorney General of Colorado

• Testimony Before the House Committee on Resources – Oversight Hearing on the NationalEnvironmental Policy Act – from March 18, 1998
• Testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee – from July 16, 1997

Antonia Novello — Former Surgeon General, United States of America

• To the Graduating Class of Providence College – Commencement Speech, Providence, Rhode Island:May 17, 1992

Michelle Nowlin — Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center

• Testimony to Congress on Agricultural Animal Waste Regulations – Washington, DC: 1998

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — German Biologist/Nobel Laureate

• The Identification of Genes Controlling Development in Flies and Fishes – Nobel lecture from 1995

Phyllis E. Oakley — Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department ofState

• Women’s Role in the New Age of Globalization – Address at Ewha Woman’s University, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul, Korea
• Humanitarian Affairs in the State Department – Some of the dilemmas facing those who work in humanitarian assistance.

Michelle Obama — First Lady of the United States

• Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Support of Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, 2008

Ayoola Obe — President, Civil Liberties Organization of Nigeria

• Remarks at a Roundtable Discussion on Human Rights in Africa with President BillClinton – Obe describes the worsening human rights situation in Nigeria.

Sadako Ogata — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

• The Current Problems of Refugee Populations – Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, 23 May2000
• Preventing Future Genocide and Protecting Refugees – at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 30 April 1997
• Solidarity and Nation Building: The Case of Refugees – Kampala, Uganda, 7 May 1998
• Statement to the United Nations Security Council – New York: March 11, 1993
• World Order, Internal Conflict and Refugees – Speech dated October 28, 1996 at the Kennedy Schoolof Government

Hazel O’Leary — U.S. Secretary of Energy

• Openness – Secretary O’Leary reveals government secrets from the Cold War in a speech datedDecember 7, 1993

Beverly O’Neill — Mayor of Long Beach, CA

• Excerpt from State of the City speech – January 10, 1995

Katherine O’Regan — New Zealand Minister of Consumer Affairs/Associate Minister of Health

• Breast Cancer Screening – Friday, 29 November 1996
• Home Care – June 19, 1996
• Open Codex Coordinating Committee for North America and the South West Pacific – International food standards and food safety issues are addressed

Mary O’Rourke — Deputy Leader, Fianna Fail

• The Union and Its Citizens: On the Priorities of the Irish Presidency – Institute of European AffairsConference, Dublin Castle: May 25, 1996

Camille Paglia — American Professor of Humanities

• Crisis in the American Universities – her 1991 lecture at M.I.T

Sarah Palin — 2008 U.S. Vice-Presidential Nominee

• Acceptance Speech – from RNC in St. Paul, MN, September 4, 2008

Judith L. Palkovitz — National Vice President, Hadassah

• Testimony Before the United States Senate Committee on Labor And Human Resources -Washington, DC, May 21, 1998

Marcia Pally — President, Feminists for Free Expression

• Remarks at the Cato institute Policy Forum: Do Movies And Music Cause Violence? Sex, Cyberspace,and the First Amendment – Pally argues against censorship of popular culture before a forumsponsored by a prominent libertarian think tank.

Deborah Y. Parker — officer in the U.S. Army

• Memorial Day Speech, May 26, 1997 – A remembrance of those who gave their lives in the service oftheir nation.

Pamela J. Parker — Director of Minnesota Senior Health Options, Minnesota Department of HumanServices

• Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging – Parker describes how HMOs canaid eldercare.

Cynthia Patterson — Former Dean of Academic Advising and Co-Curricular Life at Sweet Briar College

• The Study of the Past Is Always Directly Related to Our Understanding of the Present – 1996Opening Convocation Address

Polly Peachum — American Author

• Defining the BDSM Life Style: The Essential Prerequisite – IRC Channel #surrender_discuss, October8, 1996

Mary Pena — Shuswap Activist

• Speech at the Benefit for Ts’peten Defenders – Native activists face down the Royal CanadianMounted Police

Francis Perkins — United States Secretary of Labor

• Social insurance for U.S. – February 25, 1935

Vesna Pesic — President, Civic Alliance of Serbia

• Nationalism, War, Crisis and Women’s Politics – Remarks to the Vital Voices Conference – July 10, 1997

Anne C. Petersen — Senior Vice President for Programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

• Nets And Webs: Enhancing Communities or Driving Isolation? – Exploring the benefits and risks ofthe Internet, July 30, 1997

Kim Phuc — Vietnam War survivor

• Address at the United States Vietnam War Memorial – Delivered on Veteran’s Day, 1996

Katha Pollitt — Columnist for the Nation and the Washington Post

• Speech Upon Receipt of the Freethought Heroine Award – Denver, Colorado, September 29, 1995

Samantha Power — Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• Rwanda’s Genocide: Looking Back – Statement before the Committee on International Relations of theU.S. House of Representatives – April 22, 2004

Sister Helen Prejean — American Catholic Nun/ Death Penalty Activist

• Status of the International Covenants on Human Rights – a 1998 statement made on behalf of theHands Off Cain organization.

Katherine P. Prescott — National President, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)

• Testimony Before the Committee on Environment And Public Works, U.S. Senate – Prescott argues for reducing the legal blood alcohol content for drivers to .08 nationwide.

Kazimira Prunskiene — Chairperson of the Lithuanian Women’s Party

• The Role of Women in Democracy: the Experience of Lithuania – Vital Voices Conference, Vienna,Austria: July 10, 1997

Roxanne Qualls — Mayor of Cincinnati

• Installation Speech – December 1, 1993

Anna Quindlen –American newspaper columnist

• Mount Holyoke College Commencement Speech – May 23, 1999

Sally Quinn — American newspaper journalist

• Speech at the Wendt Center – circa 1999

Lea Rabin — Widow of Israel Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Yitzhak Rabin

• A Public Address, March 7, 1996 – Delivered to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Ayn Rand — American Fiction Writer

• Philosophy: Who Needs it? – Delivered to the graduating class of the United States Military Academyat West Point on March 6, 1974.

Nancy Reagan — Former First Lady, United States of America

• Remarks at the George W. Bush Presidential Library: Dedication – Mrs. Reagan recalls the relationship between President Ronald Reagan and his Vice-President, George Bush.
• Speech to the 1996 Republican National Convention – August 12, 1996

Sally Regenhard — Founder and Chairman – Skyscraper Safety Campaign

• Statement to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States – the aftermath ofSeptember 11, 2001

Janet Reno — United States Attorney General

• Keynote Address – Presented at Carolina Coliseum, Columbia, South Carolina.
• Speech to the American Indian Sovereignty Symposium – How relations between Native American tribes and the Unites States government largely determine the scope and range of tribal sovereignty.

Mary Reynolds — US Citizen/Former slave

• Oral History: Of Her Days as a Slave – Ms. Reynolds describes her childhood for the WPA WritersProject Ex-Slave Narratives. From American Life Histories.

Condoleezza Rice — U.S. Secretary of State

• Remarks at Georgetown School of Foreign Service – January 18, 2006
• Remarks at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting – June 14, 2006
• Republican National Convention: Remarks – Tuesday, August 1, 2000
• Remarks on International Women’s Day – March 7, 2007

Ann Richards — Former Texas Governor

• Democratic National Convention Keynote Address – from July 18, 1988

Faith Ringgold — Artist & Social Activist

• You Were Too Young to Remember What We Must Never Forget – Presented at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, March 25, 1993.

Alice M. Rivlin — Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board

• Remarks at New York University – Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service – New York, NewYork: May 12, 1998

Cokie Roberts — American Author and Journalist

• We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters – May 11, 1998 – Address to the Commonwealth Club
• Who Will Be the Next President of the United States – Landon Lecture, Kansas State University:November 8, 1999

Mary Robinson — Former President of Ireland

• Keynote Address to the International Conference on Hunger – Delivered at New York University -May 19-20, 1995
• Remarks at an Exchange of Toasts with United States President Bill Clinton – June 13, 1996.

Anita Roddick — Founder and Co-Chair of the Body Shop

• Trading With Principles – Address to the International Forum on Globalisation’s Tech-in at Seattle,Washington, USA- November 27, 1999

Hillary Rodham — First Lady of the United States

• Commencement Speech, Wellesley College – Delivered May 31, 1969.

Judith Rodin — President, University of Pennsylvania

• Testimony Before the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space – Washington, DC: April 28, 1998

Eleanor Roosevelt– Former First Lady of the United States

• What Libraries Mean to the Nation – Address at the District of Columbia Library Association Dinner — April 1, 1936
• Making Human Rights Come Alive – Delivered at Columbia University — March 30, 1949

Ernestine L. Rose — Women’s Rights Pioneer

• Address on Woman’s Rights – Delivered October 19, 1851
• Address To the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association – Delivered May 9, 1867

Marsha Rosenbaum — Director of the San Francisco office of the Drug Policy Alliance

• Women And Drugs: Twenty Five Years of Research and Policy – circa 1996

Arundhati Roy — Booker Prize winning novelist

• Opening Statement on Behalf of the Jury of Conscience of the World Tribunal of Iraq – June 24, 2005

Nancy Rubin — Head of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission

• Promoting the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Women – Statement Before the United Nations Human Rights Commission – April 2, 1997
• The Violation of Human Rights – Statement before the United Nations Human Rights Commission – April 10, 1997

Joan Ruddock– Representative, European Union

• Statement on Behalf of the European Union at the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, New York: March, 1998

Alexandrina Rusu — Member of the Romanian delegation to the meeting of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

• International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space – New York, 27 October, 1999

Dr. Nafis Sadik — Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund

• Address to the World Conference for Women – Dr. Sadik speaks on women’s reproductive health
• Speech from the International Conference on Population and Development – September 5, 1994, Cairo, Egypt

Margaret Sanger — American Birth Control Activist

• The Morality of Birth Control – 1921
• Woman and the Future – January 25, 1937

Lois J. Schiffer — Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice

• Statement Concerning Enforcement of Environmental Laws, Before the Committee on Environment andPublic Works, United States Senate – June 10, 1997

Phyllis Schlafly — President of The Eagle Forum

• Encryption Is Essential to Freedom – on privacy in electronic communications
• Why Is insurance Unaffordable for Many Families? – Advocates the Medical Savings Account program
• Statement Concerning Computer Encryption Before the House Subcommittee on Courts And intellectualProperty – March 20, 1997

Patricia Schroeder — Former Congresswoman/President and CEO Association of American Publishers

• Comstock Act Still on the Books – To the House of Representatives – September 24, 1996

Betty Shabazz — American Civil Rights Activist/Widow of Malcolm X

• Remembering Malcolm X – From a 1996 press conference

Donna Shalala — Secretary of Health and Human Services

• Remarks at World Health Organization’s Women’s Health Day Panel on “Women and AIDS” – Delivered at the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1995

Gloria Shatto — President of Berry College

• Berry College: Moving Vigorously into the Future – this speech was delivered on May 17, 1984, when Berry College was honored by the Newcomen Society of the United States.

Anna Howard Shaw — Suffrage Orator and Social Reformer

• The Fundamental Principle of a Republic – Shaw delivered this speech during the 1915 New York State equal suffrage campaign at a fully packed City Opera House in Ogdenburg on the evening of June 21.

Aliza Sherman — Founder of Webgrrls

• A Talk to the San Francisco Webgrrls – Her experiences as the original Cybergrrl

Jenny Shipley — Leader of the Opposition, New Zealand

• New Zealand’s Strategic Setting – 25 November 2000
• Our Prosperity, Our People, Our Future – 24 November 2000
• To the Local Government New Zealand Conference – 12 July 1999, Auckland

Vandana Shiva — Director of Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, India

• The Global Campaign Against Biopiracy and Changing the Paradigm of Agriculture – Seattle IFG Teach-in, November 26, 1999 at the International Forum on Globalization
• Monocultures, Monopolies, Myths and the Masculinisation of Agriculture – for the international conference on “Women in Agriculture” Washington D.C., June 28 – 2 July 1998
• War And Peace on Our Farms and Tables – 3 September 2000, Kitakyushu, Japan

Clare Short– International Development Secretary, United Kingdom

• The Challenge for the UN in a Globalising World – at the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, 26 October 1999
• Speech at the Iraq Humanitarian Aid Meeting – Lancaster House, London, UK: April 20, 1998

Mrs. Amsatou Sow Sidibe — Director of Studies, Peace and Human Rights institute, Cheikh Ania Diop University of Dakar, Senegal

• Remarks at a Roundtable Discussion on Human Rights in Africa with President Bill Clinton – Sidibe describes the present human rights situation in Senegal.

Ruth Simmons — President of Smith College

• Vivat Academia – President Simmons’ Inaugural Address

Jeanne Hurley Simon — Chairperson, US National Commission on Libraries And information Science

• Presentation to the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging – at the forum “The Internet: Empowering Older Americans” – Washington, DC, July 16, 1998
• Women’s History: Promises To Keep, A Personal Perspective – Washington, DC, March 29, 1995

Dr. Zola Skweyiya — Minister for Public Service and Administration, South Africa

• Speech at the Parliamentary Media Briefing Week – How public service administration is being transformed in post-apartheid South Africa.

Eleanor Smeal — President, Feminist Majority

• From Gender Gap to Gender Gulf: Abortion, Affirmative Action, and the Radical Right – National Press Club, Washington, DC – February 13, 1997

Marcia S. Smith — Science Policy Research Division, NASA

• The Shuttle-Mir Program: Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science – Smith describes the final stages of the Shuttle-Mir program between the United States and Russia.

Margaret Chase Smith — Unites States Senator

• Declaration of Conscience – on June 1, 1950, Senator Smith speaks out against the witch hunt for communists

Mary Carter Smith — American Griot (Storyteller), Folklorist and Social Activist

• Address to the National Storytelling Association – October 5, 1996

Olympia Snowe — United Stales Senator

• 1997 Class Day Address – Her June 3, 1997 address to the John F. Kennedy School of Government

Valerie Solanas — Militant Feminist Writer

• SCUM Manifesto – Her 1967 manifesto.

Sonia Sotomayor –Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

• Opening Statement and Initial Questioning During U.S. Senate Confirmation Hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court- July 13-14, 2009

Janet Southby — Retired Chief Nurse, Walter Reed Army Hospital, introduced by Diane Evans of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Project

• Memorial Day Address at the United States Vietnam War Memorial Wall – May 27, 1996

Dale Spender — Australian author of Nattering on the Net

• Building Up – Or Dumbing Down? A Keynote Address to the Communities Networking/Networking Communities Conference – A detailed look at the impact of the internet on society.
• Online Teaching: Where to Start? – Delivered at Universities in the 21st Century: Education in a Borderless World held in Singapore, 14th August, 1996

Annie Sprinkle — American Performance Artist and Sex Guru

• 40 Reasons Why Whores are My Heros – from her book Post-Porn Modernist
• Testimony Before the Meese Commission on Pornography – 1986

Elizabeth Cady Stanton –American Women’s Rights Pioneer

• Opening Address at Seneca Falls Convention- July, 1848
• Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions – from the Seneca Falls Convention July 19, 1848
• Address to the American Equal Rights Association – May 9, 1867
• On Marriage and Divorce – 1871
• Solitude of Self – Address to the Congressional Judiciary Committee, 1892

Shari Steele — Director of Legal Services, Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Speech Before the Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy of the National Research Council, April 12, 1995

Gloria Steinem — American Feminist Author

• Tufts University: Commencement Speech – May 17, 1987
• Scholars, Witches and Other Freedom Fighters: Speech at Salem State College – March 1993.

Debra Stewart — Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, North Carolina State University

• Courts and Intellectual Property – Testimony to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, US House of Representatives – Washington, DC, February 12, 1998

Nadine Strossen — President, American Civil Liberties Union

• Combating Terrorism, Protecting Freedom – Excerpt of Remarks Before the Cato Institute Policy Forum – September 10,1997
• Campaign Finance Reform – Testimony Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the ConstitutionalIssues of Campaign Finance Reform Legislation – June 12, 2001

Kathleen M. Sullivan –Americans for Computer Privacy

• Privacy in the Digital Age: Encryption and Mandatory Access – Testimony Before the US Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, And Property Rights, Washington, DC, March 17, 1998

Kathleen Sullivan – United States Astronaut

• The Future of the Oceans: Challenges to the Marine Ecosystem – Washington, DC, May 25, 1995

Sue Suter — Former U.S. Commissioner of Rehabilitation/President of World institute on Disabilities Services

• Lessons From the Outside – Commencement Address to Southern Illinois University — May 11, 1991
• Lessons to Remember: How to Know the Really lmportant Things in Life – Commencement address toRobert Morris College
• Star Treks’ Lessons for the Disability Community – Keynote Address for the Annual Conference of the Association for the Severely Handicapped
• Waiting For the Day When Disability Is No Big Deal – Keynote address to the Annual Conference of the National Industries for the Severely Handicapped
• Women With Disabilities: How To Become a Boat Rocker in Life – Address to the New Zealand Rehabilitation Association Conference

Linda A. Suydam — Interim Deputy Commissioner for Operations, U.S. Food And Drug Administration

• Statement on the Regulation of Food Additives Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Human Resources And intergovernmental Relations – An overview of FDA policy concerning food additives.

Wislawa Szymborska — Polish Poet/Nobel Literature Prize 1996

• The Poet and the World – Her Nobel Lecture reproduced here with the permission of the Nobe lFoundation

Julia E. Taft– Assistant Secretary for Population Refugees and Migration

• Humanitarian Assistance: A Government Perspective – Center for International Health and Cooperation and City University of New York, Hunter College, New York, NY, July 6, 1998
• Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – Washington, DC, March 10, 1998

Linda Tarr-Whelan — US Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women

• On the Status of Women – Statement to the United Nations Commission

Valentina Tereshkova — First Female Cosmonaut (1963) & Head of the Russian Center for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation

• Interview with Russia Magazine – April 1998

Mary Church Terrell — Activist for Civil Rights and Suffrage; First President, National Association of Colored Women

• The Progress of Colored Women – Address Before the National American Women’s Suffrage Association, February 18, 1898
• What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States – This speech was delivered before theWashington, D.C, United Women’s Club on October 10,1906.
• Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee on the Equal Rights Amendment – March 10, 1948

Sandy Thurman — AIDS Director, United States

• Remarks during Introduction to the Press by U.S. President Bill Clinton – Short speech delivered at apress conference introducing her to the public

Karen M. Torres — Commander, 22nd Airlift Squadron

• Testimony to the US House National Security Committee – Testimony to the US House National Security Committee, Subcommittee on Military Readiness, Washington, DC, 1998

Paula Treckel — Professor of History, Allegheny College

• Forging the Thunderbolts: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and American Feminism – Chautauqua Institution: July 28, 1995

Sojourner Truth — Women’s Rights & African-American Rights Pioneer

• Ain’t I A Woman? – Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio – December, 1851
• Suppose I Am about the Only Colored Woman that Goes about to Speak for the Rights of Colored Women – Fourth National Woman’s Rights Convention, New York City, 1853

Laura D’Andrea Tyson — Chair of US National Economic Council

• Statement at lndustry Briefing on Science, Technology, and the Federal (U.S.) Budget – Tyson speaks about the importance of investing in technology.
• Remarks at Appointment to Position by President Bill Clinton – February 21, 1995

Fran Ulmer — Lieutenant Governor, Alaska

• Remarks to the Gore-Chernomyrdin U.S.-Russian Federation Cooperation Conference, San Jose, California, March 12, 1998

Urvashi Vaid — Gay Rights Activist

• Speech at the March on Washington – April 25, 1993

Charlotte van Rappard-Boon — Chief inspector of Cultural Heritage, Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

• The Fate of Works of Art in the Netherlands during and after World War Two – Holocaust Symposium,Washington Conference on the Holocaust, December 2, 1998

Nydia Velazquez — U. S. Congresswoman

• Statement on the Future of Puerto Rico’s Political Status – March 22, 2007. Statement concerning “Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2007”
• Statement at Confirmation Hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court – July 16, 2009.Statement before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Ann M. Veneman — Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture

• Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power – Fresno, California – April 15, 1998

Lillian Vernon — American Entrepreneur

• The Entrepreneur and the Professional Manager: Getting the Best of Both Worlds – An undated speech from 1998

Vaira Vike-Freiberga — President of the Republic of Latvia

• Address at the Conference on Women and Democracy at the Dawn of the New Millennium
• Speech at the 54th General Assembly of the United Nations – New York: September 22, 1999

Ren Volpe — Lesbian Activist

• Speech To San Francisco’s Fourth Annual Dyke March – A 1997 speech affirming lesbian rights.

Judith Wallerstein — Psychologist

• Joan Erikson: ln Memoriam – An Appreciation Delivered at St. Stephens Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, October 4, 1997.
• Marriage Reform – Wallerstein outlines reforms she feels would be beneficial to the institution of marriage in the modern world.

Margaret Warner — American Journalist

• Sweet Briar College Commencement – May 16, 2009

Faye Wattleton — Former head of Planned Parenthood/Founder of the Center for Gender Equity

• An Open Letter to My Daughter – From her 1996 autobiography Life on the Line

Mrs. Henry Weddington – American Civil Rights Advocate

• We Want to Live Not Merely Exist – A 1941 Letter to President Franklin Roosevelt

Christine Todd Whitman — Head of the Environmental Protection Agency

• Deerfield Commencement – Sunday, May 28, 1995
• Effective Policy Making: The Role of Good Science – Symposium on Nutrient Over-Enrichment of Coastal Waters
• Remarks at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government – Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 29, 1998
• Remarks at the Land Trust Conference – National Land Trust Conference (via Satellite) Tuesday, October 20, 1998
• Republicans, Democrats, Feminists and Post-lmpeachment Politics – National Press Club, Washington,D.C. Wednesday, March 3, 1999

Sheila Widnall — former Secretary of the Air Force, United States of America.

• The lmportance of Values – Commencement Speech, Texas A&M University
• Digits of Pi: Barriers and Enablers for Women in Engineering – Presented at the S.E. Regional NAE Meeting GA Tech April 26, 2000
• The Space and Air Force of the Next Century – Speech at the National Security Forum, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
• On Guard and on Orbit: The integration of Air and Space in the information Age – Speech at the EvninLecture Series, Princeton University
• Youth Leadership – Speech at the National Youth Leadership Forum

Anna Kelton Wiley –Activist for Female Equal Rights

• Philadelphia Branch of the National Woman’s Party

Wanda Wilk — Honorary Director of the Polish Music Reference Center & President of the Friends of Polish Music

• Remarks made upon receipt of the Cavalier’s Cross, Order of Polonia Restituta – May 28, 1996

Frances Willard — President, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

• Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union- A historic speech from October, 1893.

Betty Williams — Nobel Peace Prize, 1976

• Nobel Lecture – From December 11, 1977.

Jody Williams — Coordinator of International Campaign to Ban Landmines/Nobel Peace Prize 1997

• A Global Ban on Landmines – December 3, 1997.
• Nobel Lecture – Oslo, December 10, 1997.

Allee Willis – Songwriter

• Statement on Copyright Law Revisions – Willis urges Congress to enforce copyright laws on the Internet

Naomi Wolf — American Feminist Author

• Statement on Dying to be Thin – An APA Co-Sponsored Congressional Briefing – July, 1997
• A Woman’s Place – Commencement Address, Scripps College

Claire Wolfe — Libertarian Activist

• Speech Before the Arizona Libertarian Party Convention – Wolfe tells delegates that direct confrontation may be necessary if Americans are to reclaim their individual liberties.

Diane P. Wood — Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

• The Internationalization of Antitrust Law: Options for the Future – Address to the DePaul Law Review Symposium — February 3, 1995

Victoria C. Woodhull — First Female American Presidential Candidate

• And the Truth Shall Make You Free: A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom – A historic speech from November 20, 1871.

Lynn Woolsey — U.S. Congresswoman

• Commencement Speech – July 16, 1995 – University of Phoenix-San Jose Campus

Jean A. Wright — Pediatric Intensive Care Physician

• The 25th Anniversary of Roe v Wade: The Test of Time – Testimony to the US Senate Judiciary Committee – Washington, DC: January 1998

Constance Yai — Human Rights Activist, Cote d’Ivoire

• Remarks at a Roundtable Discussion on Human Rights in Africa with President Bill Clinton – April 2, 1998.

Rosalyn Yalow — American Endocrinologist/Nobel Laureate

• Radioimmunoassay: A Probe for Fine Structure of Biologic Systems – Nobel Lecture from December 8, 1977.

Dr. Janet Yellen — Chair, United States Council of Economic Advisors

• Statement before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Yellen discusses the economics of global climate change.

Begum Khaleda Zia — Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

• Address – United Nations 50th Anniversary, New York, 23 October 1995