"Pericles' Funeral Oration" from Plato's Menexenus (c. 387-367 B.C.E.)
"On Love" from Plato's Symposium ( c. 360 B.C.E.)
"Speech to the Triumvirs" (42 B.C.E.)
From "Letter I. Heloise to Abelard" (1132)
From Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1390s)
"Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, her mother, in Siena" (1376)
From The Book of the City of Ladies (1404)
From The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
"To the Troops at Tilbury" (1588)
From Jane Anger Her Protection for Women ... (1589)
From A Mouzzel for Melastomus (1617)
From Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
From "La Respuesta" (1691)
From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"Letter to Lady Bute" (1753)
"Petition of an African Slave" (1782)
From a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
"Cherokee Women Address Their Nation" (1817)
"Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall" (1832)
"Letter to Theodore Weld" (1837)
"Address at Pennsylvania Hall" (1838)
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
"Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (1848)
"Speech at the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio" (1851)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
"We Are All Bound Up Together" (1866)
From the United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)
From Life Among the Piutes (1883)
"The Higher Education of Women" (1892)
From "The Solitude of Self" (1892)
From "The Intellectual progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" (1893)
"Lynch Law in All its Phases" (1893)
From Women and Economics (1898)
"The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory" (1900)
From Correct Writing and Speaking (1904)
"Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel" (1914)
From "Marriage and Love" (1914)
"Facing Life Squarely" (1927)
"Memorial Day in Chicago" (1937)
"Professions for Women" (1942)
"Crazy for This Democracy" (1945)
From the Introduction to The Second Sex (1952)
"A Fable for Tomorrow" (1962)
"The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman" (1971)
"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" (1971)
Combahee River Collective
"The Combahee River Collective Statement" (1977)
"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" (1977)
"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" (1983)
From A Feeling for the Organism (1983)
"I Want a Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape" (1983)
"Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America" (1986)
"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (1987)
"Don't You Talk About My Momma!" (1987)
From Woman, Native, Other (1989)
"Homeplace (as site of resistance)" (1990)
"The Clan of One-Breasted Women" (1991)
"The Death of the Profane" (1991)
"The Nobel Lecture in Literature" and "The Acceptance Speech" (1993)
From Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)
"It's a Big Fat Revolution" (1995)
"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" (1996)
From United States v. Virginia et al. (1996)
"Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart" (1996)
"Supremacy Crimes" (1991).