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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Then and Now - Jan. 9, 1939
January 9, 1939
This speech was delivered by Catt at the celebration of her eightieth birthday, held at the Hotel Astor in New York City and sponsored by the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission in cooperation with the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. In a neat little house in the quiet town of Ripon, Wisconsin there lived a family named Lane in 1859. There, at 2 o'clock in the morning of January 9th, a new baby arrived, looking and acting like a million other babies born on the same day. […]
Ann Richards
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Keynote Address at the Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics Conference - April 7, 1995
April 7, 1995
Richards gave this address at the Mexican Center of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Thank you Dr. Rodriguez and Dr. Ward and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. To all the distinguished guests who are here from Mexico, I hope one of the reasons I was invited to participate today is because I am a friend to Mexico. I feel very strongly about your country. I feel very strongly not only because of the warmth and wonder of the people there, but because it […]
Carly Fiorina
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Technology, Business and Our Way of Life: What's Next - September 26, 2001
September 26, 2001
Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I’m honored to be here with you. So much has changed since I accepted your invitation to speak. Since then, we’ve become citizens of a nation in mourning. A nation whose basic freedoms, including our freedom of movement, are being weighed against other values like safety and security. In so many ways, we are a nation more united than we were just a fortnight ago–but we’re also a nation in search of new meaning and context. On the morning of September 11, I awoke to […]
Betty Williams
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Peace in the World is Everybody's Business - Sept. 20, 2007
September 20, 2007
Williams gave this address at Soka University. It could be better than that: Good morning! Now would you do me a favor please, would you all stand up? … Now give each other a hug… Doesn’t that feel good? My favorite expression in the whole world is: “Arms are for hugging, not for killing.” Now for those of you who know nothing about the work of peace that was carried out in Northern Ireland, it would be very difficult to me to stand here and tell you all the things […]
Kellyanne Conway
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March for Life - January 27, 2017
January 27, 2017
Good afternoon, March for Life. I am Kellyanne Conway. Thank you. I am a wife, a mother, a Catholic, Counselor to President of the United States of America, and, yes, I am pro-life. It is such an honor to stand with the Vice President of the United States, and with so many leaders, families, and students from places near and far to defend the unborn. Your courage, your conviction, your resolve, and your faith are impressive -- and consequential. This is a new day, a new dawn for life. Why […]
Rachel Carson
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Exceeding Beauty of the Earth - April 21, 1954
April 21, 1954
Speech to the sorority of women journalists, Theta Sigma Phi. The pleasures, the values of contact with the natural world are not reserved for the scientists. They are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of a lonely mountain top, or the sea, or the stillness of a forest, or who will stop to think about so small a thing as the mystery of a growing seed. 1 am not afraid of being thought a sentimentalist when I stand here tonight and tell you that I believe […]
Rachel Carson
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A New Chapter in Silent Spring - Jan. 8, 1963
January 8, 1963
Address to the women of the Garden Club of America. I am particularly glad to have this opportunity to speak to you. Ever since, ten years ago, you honored me with your Frances Hutchinson medal, I have felt very close to The Garden Club of America. And I should like to pay tribute to you for the quality of your work and for the aims and aspirations of your organization. Through your interest in plant life, your fostering of beauty, your alignment with constructive conservation causes, you promote that onward […]
Rachel Carson
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Address to the Women’s National Press Club - Dec. 5, 1962
December 5, 1962
This address is one of Carson’s most important statements following publication of "Silent Spring." My text this afternoon is taken from the Globe Times of Bethlehem, Pa., a news item in the issue of October 12. After describing in detail the adverse reactions to "Silent Spring" of the farm bureaus in two Pennsylvania counties, the reporter continued: “No one in either county farm office who was talked to today had read the book, but all disapproved of it heartily.” This sums up very neatly the background of much of the […]
Elizabeth “Betsy” DeVos
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Keynote Address at Brookings Institute - March 29, 2017
March 29, 2017
Well, good morning, everyone. Thank you, Russ, for that kind introduction and for a little tour through Grand Rapids and some of my previous interests. And thank you for your work to develop this important report. And thank you all here for coming today. This report does focus on something everyone here knows I’m passionate about: increasing education options for parents and students. It’s something I view as a fundamental right too long denied to too many kids. My views on this were shaped early on in my time as […]
Norma Torres
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Rialto 10th Annual State of Women - March 5, 2016
March 5, 2016
I am honored to have been asked and been invited to come back year after year. I so much appreciate the work that you do and the work that the entire city of Rialto does for its residents. Thank you so much to all of you, city staff, that are here that helped organized and put this event together not just this year but every single year. I am- although I'm in Congress now, you know, my life hasn't really been that easy. People say wow you know it you […]