What She Said (eBook)

Monica Lunin is a communications expert, speaker and writer based in Sydney Australia. She is the co-owner of MOJOLOGIC, a consultancy that specialises in developing the skills of communication, influence and leadership.

Introduction v

1. Providing guidance, advice and wisdom 1

Michelle Obama: When they go low, we go high 5

Nora Ephron: Be the heroine of your life 15

Florence Nightingale: What makes a good nurse 25

Virginia Woolf: Shakespeare's sister 35

2. Sharing complex thoughts and ideas 47

Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability 51

Hannah Arendt: What remains? The language remains 61

Marie Curie: Radium and the new concepts in chemistry 71

Margaret Atwood: Payback: Debt and the shadow side of wealth 79

3. Opening hearts and minds 87

Eleanor Roosevelt: On the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 91

Nancy Astor: Maiden speech 101

Malala Yousafzai: One girl among many 109

Naomi Klein: This changes everything 119

4. Beckoning the waves of feminism 127

Mary Wollstone craft: I have a dream 131

Emmeline Pankhurst: Why we are militant 139

Betty Friedan: Call to women's strike for equality 149

Audre Lorde: The Transformation of Silence 157

5. Demanding respect 165

Julia Gillard: Misogyny speech 169

Sylvia Rivera: Y'all better quiet down 177

Margaret Thatcher: The lady's not for turning 183

Hillary Clinton: Women's rights are human rights 191

6. Arguing a position 199

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Argument in Frontiero v. Richardson 203

Barbara Jordan: Articles of Impeachment during Watergate 215

Margaret Sanger: The morality of birth control 225

Angela Merkel: Speech to US Congress 231

7. Inspiring action 239

Queen Elizabeth I: The heart and stomach of a king 243

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a woman? 251

Dolores Ibárruri: They shall not pass! 259

Greta Thunberg: Our house is on fire 265

8. Using humour to connect and persuade 273

Nellie McClung: Should men vote? 277

Dorothy Parker: Hollywood, the land I won't return to 285

Roxane Gay: Confessions of a bad feminist 295

Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness? 303

9. Encouraging inclusion 311

Jacinda Ardern: They were New Zealanders. They are us 315

Faith Bandler: Faith, hope and reconciliation 323

Indira Gandhi: Last speech of Indira Gandhi at Bhubaneswar 333

Linda Burney: Inaugural speech 341

10. Harnessing the power of stories 351

Eva Kor: Surviving the Angel of Death 355

Josephine Baker: March on Washington 365

Svetlana Alexievich: On the battle lost 375

Maya Angelou: On the pulse of morning 383

Sources 391

Index 397