What She Said: #1 Award Winner: The Art of Inspiring Action through Speech
**Winner of the Communications and Sales Book of the Year and Winner of Cover Design at the Australian Business Book Awards 2022**

Learn how spoken words can change a mind, a community and the world with this collection of remarkable speeches by women

What She Said is an inspiring collection of speeches from passionate and persuasive women from around the world and throughout history. The included speakers come from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, ages, and education levels, demonstrating how women from all walks of life can use the power of speech to bring change.

Author Monica Lunin has curated and analysed 40 of the greatest speeches made by strong and empowering women from all around the world. From Queen Elizabeth I to Maya Angelou, Greta Thunberg, Julia Gillard, and Michelle Obama, What She Said shows not only what was said but also how the speech worked and why it was effective.

In this insightful exploration of female wit, persuasion, and leadership, you’ll find an extract of the speech, a biography of the speaker and a breakdown of the qualities that made it so remarkable.

You’ll learn how these women:

  • inspired, moved, and persuaded an audience
  • understood and empathised with a crowd
  • effectively argued a position
  • opened hearts and minds
  • shared thoughts and insights.

Across 10 chapters, each representing a different theme—from inspiration to activism to storytelling—What She Said will teach you to harness and leverage the power of the spoken word, offering the voices and tools to help you bring about the change you want to see in your world.

 

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What She Said: #1 Award Winner: The Art of Inspiring Action through Speech
**Winner of the Communications and Sales Book of the Year and Winner of Cover Design at the Australian Business Book Awards 2022**

Learn how spoken words can change a mind, a community and the world with this collection of remarkable speeches by women

What She Said is an inspiring collection of speeches from passionate and persuasive women from around the world and throughout history. The included speakers come from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, ages, and education levels, demonstrating how women from all walks of life can use the power of speech to bring change.

Author Monica Lunin has curated and analysed 40 of the greatest speeches made by strong and empowering women from all around the world. From Queen Elizabeth I to Maya Angelou, Greta Thunberg, Julia Gillard, and Michelle Obama, What She Said shows not only what was said but also how the speech worked and why it was effective.

In this insightful exploration of female wit, persuasion, and leadership, you’ll find an extract of the speech, a biography of the speaker and a breakdown of the qualities that made it so remarkable.

You’ll learn how these women:

  • inspired, moved, and persuaded an audience
  • understood and empathised with a crowd
  • effectively argued a position
  • opened hearts and minds
  • shared thoughts and insights.

Across 10 chapters, each representing a different theme—from inspiration to activism to storytelling—What She Said will teach you to harness and leverage the power of the spoken word, offering the voices and tools to help you bring about the change you want to see in your world.

 

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What She Said: #1 Award Winner: The Art of Inspiring Action through Speech

What She Said: #1 Award Winner: The Art of Inspiring Action through Speech

by Monica Lunin
What She Said: #1 Award Winner: The Art of Inspiring Action through Speech

What She Said: #1 Award Winner: The Art of Inspiring Action through Speech

by Monica Lunin

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**Winner of the Communications and Sales Book of the Year and Winner of Cover Design at the Australian Business Book Awards 2022**

Learn how spoken words can change a mind, a community and the world with this collection of remarkable speeches by women

What She Said is an inspiring collection of speeches from passionate and persuasive women from around the world and throughout history. The included speakers come from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, ages, and education levels, demonstrating how women from all walks of life can use the power of speech to bring change.

Author Monica Lunin has curated and analysed 40 of the greatest speeches made by strong and empowering women from all around the world. From Queen Elizabeth I to Maya Angelou, Greta Thunberg, Julia Gillard, and Michelle Obama, What She Said shows not only what was said but also how the speech worked and why it was effective.

In this insightful exploration of female wit, persuasion, and leadership, you’ll find an extract of the speech, a biography of the speaker and a breakdown of the qualities that made it so remarkable.

You’ll learn how these women:

  • inspired, moved, and persuaded an audience
  • understood and empathised with a crowd
  • effectively argued a position
  • opened hearts and minds
  • shared thoughts and insights.

Across 10 chapters, each representing a different theme—from inspiration to activism to storytelling—What She Said will teach you to harness and leverage the power of the spoken word, offering the voices and tools to help you bring about the change you want to see in your world.

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780730399834
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 03/01/2022
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 1,003,733
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction v

1 Providing guidance, advice and wisdom 1

When they go low, we go high Michelle Obama 5

Be the heroine of your life Nora Ephron 15

What makes a good nurse Florence Nightingale 25

Shakespeare's sister Virginia Woolf 35

2 Sharing complex thoughts and ideas 47

The power of vulnerability Brené Brown 51

What remains? The language remains Hannah Arendt 61

Radium and the new concepts in chemistry Marie Curie 71

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

3 Opening hearts and minds 87

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

Maiden speech Nancy Astor 101

One girl among many Malala Yousafzai 109

This changes everything Naomi Klein 119

4 Beckoning the waves of feminism 127

I have a dream Mary Wollstonecraft 131

Why we are militant Emmeline Pankhurst 139

Call to women's strike for equality Betty Friedan 149

The Transformation of Silence Audre Lorde 157

5 Demanding respect 165

Misogyny speech Julia Gillard 169

Y'all better quiet down Sylvia Rivera 177

The lady's not for turning Margaret Thatcher 183

Women's rights are human rights Hillary Clinton 191

6 Arguing a position 199

Argument in Frontiero v. Richardson Ruth Bader Ginsburg 203

Articles of Impeachment during Watergate Barbara Jordan 215

The morality of birth control Margaret Sanger 225

Speech to US Congress Angela Merkel 231

7 Inspiring action 239

The heart and stomach of a king Queen Elizabeth I 243

Ain't I a woman? Sojourner Truth 251

They shall not pass! Dolores Ibárruri 259

Our house is on fire Greta Thunberg 265

8 Using humour to connect and persuade 273

Should men vote? Nellie McClung 277

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

Confessions of a bad feminist Roxane Gay 295

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

9 Encouraging inclusion 311

They were New Zealanders, They are us Jacinda Ardern 315

Faith, hope and reconciliation Faith Bandler 323

Last speech of Indira Gandhi at Bhubaneswar Indira Gandhi 333

Inaugural speech Linda Burney 341

10 Harnessing the power of stories 351

Surviving the Angel of Death Eva Kor 355

March on Washington Josephine Baker 365

On the battle lost Svetlana Alexievich 375

On the pulse of morning Maya Angelou 383

Sources 391

Index 397

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