This is an edited and resized version ofSo Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire.

Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation.

Great Women's Speechesis essential reading for pioneering women everywhere.FromEmmeline Pankhurst's'Freedom or Death' speech andMarie Curie'strailblazing Nobel lecture, toMichelle Obamaspeaking on parenthood in politics and Black Lives Matter co-founderAlicia Garza'sstirring ode to black women, the words collected here are empowering, engaging and entirely unapologetic.

With powerful illustrations from Camila Pinheiro, Anna Russell's rousing anthology is dedicated to anyone who dares to ask for more.

The women:Elizabeth I; Fanny Wright; Maria Stewart; Angelina Grimk; Sojourner Truth; Victoria Woodhull; Sarah Winnemucca; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Mary Church Terrell; Ida B. Wells; CountessMarkievicz; Marie Curie; Emmeline Pankhurst; Nellie McClung; Jutta Bojsen-Mller; Emma Goldman; Nancy Astor; Margaret Sanger; Virginia Woolf; Huda Sha'arawi; Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti; Eva Pern; Helen Keller; Eleanor Roosevelt; Shirley Chisholm; Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Sylvia Rivera; Simone Veil; Indira Gandhi; Margaret Thatcher; Ursula K. Le Guin; Barbara McClintock; Corazon C. Aquino; Naomi Wolf; Severn Cullis-Suzuki; Wilma Mankiller; Toni Morrison; Hillary Clinton; Wangari Maathai; J.K. Rowling; Angela Merkel; Sheryl Sandberg; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Asmaa Mahfouz; Manal al-Sharif; Julia Gillard; Malala Yousafzai; Emma Watson; Jane Goodall; Michelle Obama; Gloria Steinem; Beatrice Fihn; Alicia Garza; Maya Lin.