Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Providing guidance, advice and wisdom
Michelle Obama: When they go low, we go high
What she said
How she did that
Nora Ephron: Be the heroine of your life
What she said
How she did that
Florence Nightingale: What makes a good nurse
What she said
How she did that
Virginia Woolf: Shakespeare's sister
What she said
Chapter 2 Sharing complex thoughts and ideas
Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability
What she said
How she did that

Hannah Arendt: What remains? The language remains
What she said
How she did that
Marie Curie: Radium and the new concepts in chemistry
What she said
How she did that
Margaret Atwood: Payback: Debt and the shadow side of wealth
What she said
How she did that
Chapter 3 Opening hearts and minds
Eleanor Roosevelt: On the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What she said
How she did that
Nancy Astor: Maiden speech
What she said
How she did that
Malala Yousafzai: One girl among many
What she said
How she did that

Naomi Klein: This changes everything
What she said
How she did that
Chapter 4 Beckoning the waves of feminism
Mary Wollstonecraft: I have a dream
What she said
How she did that
Emmeline Pankhurst: Why we are militant
What she said
How she did that
Betty Friedan: Call to women's strike for equality
What she said
How she did that
Audre Lorde: The Transformation of Silence
What she said
How she did that
Chapter 5 Demanding respect
Julia Gillard: Misogyny speech
What she said
How she did that
Sylvia Rivera: Y'all better quiet down

What she said
How she did that
Margaret Thatcher: The lady's not for turning
What she said
How she did that
Hillary Clinton: Women's rights are human rights
What she said
How she did that
Chapter 6 Arguing a position
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Argument in Frontiero v. Richardson
What she said
How she did that
Barbara Jordan: Articles of Impeachment during Watergate
What she said
How she did that
Margaret Sanger: The morality of birth control
What she said
How she did that
Angela Merkel: Speech to US Congress
What she said
How she did that

Chapter 7 Inspiring action
Queen Elizabeth I: The heart and stomach of a king
What she said
How she did that
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a woman?
What she said
How she did that
Dolores Ibárruri: They shall not pass!
What she said
How she did that
Greta Thunberg: Our house is on fire
What she said
How she did that
Chapter 8 Using humour to connect and persuade
Nellie McClung: Should men vote?
What she said
How she did that
Dorothy Parker: Hollywood, the land I won't return to
What she said
How she did that