The Today's Women Series offers important, but hard, if not impossible, to find speeches by contemporary and historically influential women: Barbara Jordan to Elizabeth Edwards, Margaret Thatcher to Michelle Obama, Sara Weddington to Lilly Ledbetter and Condoleezza Rice to Hillary Clinton. This collection presents noteworthy speeches that command attention not only for gender studies, but also for any serious study of historic public addresses.
Maya Angelou — 1992 Inaugural Ceremonies
Jan Piercy — Commencement Address at Scripps College
Condoleezza Rice — 2000 Republican National Convention
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg — 2000 Democratic National Convention
Karenna Gore Schiff — 2000 Democratic National Convention
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