Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth (1851) -- Why should not woman seek to be a reformer? / Lucretia Mott (1854) -- On behalf of the Woman Suffrage Amendment / Susan B. Anthony (1880) -- The solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1892) -- Southern horror : lynch law in all its phases / Ida Wells-Barnett (1892) -- The progress of fifty years / Lucy Stone (1893) -- A modern Lear / Jane Addams (1896) -- Appeal to the cause of miners in the Paint Creek district / Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1912) -- Address to the jury / Emma Goldman (1917) -- A moral necessity for birth control / Margaret Sanger (1921) -- A century of progress of negro women / Mary McLeod Bethune (1933) -- On the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Eleanor Roosevelt (1948) -- Declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith (1950) -- People and peace, not profits and war / Shirley Chisholm (1969) -- Vice presidential nomination acceptance address / Geraldine Ferraro (1984) -- Democratic National Convention keynote address / Ann Richards (1988) -- A whisper of AIDS / Mary Fisher (1992) -- A 21st century feminism / Gloria Steinem (2002) -- The new feminism / Jane Fonda (2004) -- Remarks on the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act / Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006) -- Speech upon her election as Speaker of the House / Nancy Pelosi (2007).