How native speakers pronounce “woman”

company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife Pixar went on to create the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I saw a great T-shirt recently, which said, "If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I'm fascinated by how people got to be there. It's really prompted by a conversation I had with a wonderful woman who maybe most people have never heard of, Gillian Lynne.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I was a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology at Berkeley. She was a 26-year-old woman named Alex. Now Alex walked into her first session wearing jeans and a big slouchy top,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Here's a story about how that can go. It's a story about a woman named Emma. At 25, Emma came to my office

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

that I I forget her name, that amazing woman in in Africa who's giving Okay.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

You could have heard a pin drop that morning. That morning, a woman, who was about 15 to 20 years older than I was at the time,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

where we were going to meet Lindsey, two years old, born to a woman we will never meet, with big dark eyes and just a relentless smile,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

as part of a research study with Karissa Burnett and Jennifer Allen. And Jennifer Allen is the woman who coined the term Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response in 2010.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

When she did, Louis was shaken. Either the astrologer had murdered the woman to prove his accuracy, or he was so prescient that he could threaten Louis himself.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

are not allowed to go to university or pursue a career. A woman speaking in public is a crime. But do you know what is not considered a crime?

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

That set me on a path to research the role of gender in negotiations, because I don't want any other woman to be blindsided by the secret impact gender has.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

using everything we know about how to negotiate successfully as a woman. Maybe give you a few examples of how this works, right?

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

and sometimes it comes from the inside. A woman wrote to me about her friend who she considers her person. She spent so much time with her friend's kids

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

What do you think?" The woman who used those words was successfully promoted. Here's another one.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

How can we make this work?" That woman no longer works late into the evenings. Now, you might be thinking, "This isn't fair.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

I kept getting tripped up though, because the woman who was running the retreat, my teacher, her name is Spring Washam,

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

at the end of the semester, none of the students remembered the woman, but they reported liking the woman who showed up to the most classes,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

none of the students remembered the woman, but they reported liking the woman who showed up to the most classes, 20 percent more than the woman that didn't show up for any, right?

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

but they reported liking the woman who showed up to the most classes, 20 percent more than the woman that didn't show up for any, right? Nobody remembered her, but they liked her a lot

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

for which we need to have even more because many of them won't make it, and not because it is exclusively a woman's marital duty. This is the first time that we want sex over time

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

Because what happens when you sideline an ambitious person, an ambitious woman, a mother?

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

when I feel my intelligence or my credibility comes into question. This happens because I’m a woman, and I'm bubbly, and I smile a lot, and I chat a lot, and I'm talkative.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

So a couple of years ago, a woman I know who I'll call Maya, went through a lot of big changes in a short amount of time.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

T. Morgan Dixon: I would like to tell you about the most powerful woman you've never heard of.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Do you talk to the postman? Do you talk to the woman who walks by your house every day with her dog? Do you play bridge or poker, have a book club?

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

trying to get rid of those allergy symptoms, and yet, here was Veronica, a grown woman, with the same telltale sign of allergies.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

are two car pileups I spoke to a woman whose grief over losing her father was so great she quit

Lifequakes

what I did when I was angry one woman was ashamed by her behavior during the years she was addicted to alcohol

Accept

farmer with that on my hands one woman had a brutal year in which she lost her job had a blow up with her

Mark

jumped out of a plane after a woman lost her father to a sudden illness she built an altar on her

Mark

immediately opening the fridge she shed 60 pounds one woman had to do away with going to her favorite Chinese

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and even start dating. A woman in an abusive relationship who Replika helped find a way out.

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

A father of an autistic kid. A woman going through a difficult divorce. These stories are not unique.

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

But most people were surprisingly moved. I remember, I called the woman who does the pest control for the warehouse where my coffee is served --

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

But I sing no victim song. I am a woman. I am an artist.

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

or in a totally new way. I will always remember the woman who posted, "I'm not rich,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

she would walk to school with her mom and they would pass the same woman without a home every day. And Chloe

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

asked her mom a lot of questions. Starting with "Why doesn't that woman have a home?" But also things like

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

and they filled it with toiletries and hygienic products and other goodies. And they gifted it to that woman. Not just handed it to her,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

but with connection and with conversation. And the woman said she couldn't even remember the last time somebody had asked her her name.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

"How can it be, that after all of these years Anthony has not had a relationship with a Black woman? After all, the show takes place in Atlanta,

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

I think twice every time I say that to her, because I mean it, but as a woman, particularly, I know that not every stranger on the street has the best intentions.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

This is what is happening to our culture. This woman who creates profound, impactful books is doubting her impact on the world.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

I did radio interviews and they asked. I even gave a talk, and one woman shouted up to the stage, "Hey Mandy, where's your boyfriend?"

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

find very impressive but Helen she's a woman she's a PhD environmental scientist who got her degree at Berkeley

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

Claudia Shin bam who clearly she can't change the fact that she's a woman she can't change her educational background

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

OK. There was a woman who we will call Jenny, who was adamantly opposed to getting a dog,

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

who was adamantly opposed to getting a dog, but her partner, a woman who we will call Alison, was all for it.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

when I looked at the moon? I could see a woman carrying a bucket on her head with a baby on her back.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

This is what we grew up seeing. We saw a woman, and not a man. A woman carrying a bucket on her head with a baby on her back.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

We saw a woman, and not a man. A woman carrying a bucket on her head with a baby on her back. That's what I'd always known.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

I am happy to say that the following year she did not die. She was a very healthy woman and very active. And the year after that, my mother did not die.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

Oh, who can understand her, this winding Niger river of a woman one who is unafraid to tear away

"Wild Women" | Sunni Patterson

that cannot be fixed by Band-Aids or poetry. So the first time she realizes that Wonder Woman isn't coming, I'll make sure she knows

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

I feel distilled by it, and I actually very much like the woman I'm distilling into. "No Signs of Struggle"

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

your handwriting, your voice, your height. You are more the incredible shrinking woman than the Buddhist mystic, serene, making do with less.

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

where I learned that Reproductive Justice was defined by Sister Song as: One: A woman's right to decide if and when she will have a baby and the conditions under which she will give birth.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

and the conditions under which she will give birth. Two: A woman's right to decide if she will not have a baby and her options for preventing or ending a pregnancy.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

and her options for preventing or ending a pregnancy. And three: A woman's right to parent the children she already has in safe and healthy environments

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

the death of my daughter wouldn't even be newsworthy. So you can't tell me that Sandra Bland is the only Black woman whose violence deserves more than our silence.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

and it gave her some jobs that she might want to consider. And then she said, "Oh, and I'm a woman." And then it said, “Oh, well you should also consider fashion.”

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

your daughter, whether your offspring or heir to your triumph, from her comforted side of history teetering towards woman, she will wonder and ask voraciously,

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | TED · TED

But it's OK because high-school David had a solution. He went to Google and typed in "top three poses for a woman." The guys in the high school didn't want photos that much.

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

based on your physical traits and your labels. Ah, you are a woman, this is how you need to present your body.

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

They instantly knew why they woke up in the morning. For this 102 year old woman, her ikigai was simply her great-great-great-granddaughter.

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

In America here, life expectancy for the average woman is 80. But for an Adventist woman,

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

for the average woman is 80. But for an Adventist woman, their life expectancy is 89.

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

It felt bigger than that. I was the first Black woman to perform this role in ABT's history. Dancing "The Firebird" for me was a chance to honor the generations

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

(Applause) People of every background gathered to witness a Black woman step into the title role

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

But ballet was not always the safe place I hoped it would be. I was the only Black woman in a company of more than 80 dancers. And for all the stability and belonging I had discovered early on in ballet,

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

or my technique, but also on the fact that I was a Black woman standing in a role where no Black woman at ABT had stood before.

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

but also on the fact that I was a Black woman standing in a role where no Black woman at ABT had stood before. And yet, in that pressure,

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

Raven Wilkinson was in the audience. Raven had been the first Black woman to dance in a major American ballet company,

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

and she told me this several times, "I'd never imagined I would see a Black woman in this role." And at my curtain call,

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

In 2015, I was promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, the first Black woman in the company’s then 75-year history. (Applause)

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

I am she, and my mama is the epitome of a grown-ass woman: someone who has always been very comfortable in her skin.

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

because she refused to be beholden to my dad for money. And I bet my mom was the only woman in our neighborhood who cooked once a week.

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

when scientists wanted to know what it was like for a woman to have a baby at the time. They carried out this huge survey of mothers

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

but for being courageous. And so I need each of you to tell every young woman you know -- your sister, your niece, your employee, your colleague --

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

Will we invest in the next young woman or man peering through a microscope at the next little critter,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

and finds out he's not the only one trapped. (Video) Woman: Working with the situation of the vehicle. If you have your app pulled up,

3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED · TED

Take over the car. You don't need my phone. Woman: I don't have an option. NR: It is sexy to think that the tech apocalypse

3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED · TED

(Applause) The poor woman had mistakenly told him "toqborni," and then spent the whole night trying to explain it to him.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

so he can feel what I feel when I listen to Fairuz." The poor woman tried to translate this for him: "From them I extended my hands and stole you --"

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

And so I think that nature is not that which is untouched by humanity, man or woman. I think that nature is anywhere where life thrives,

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

Why? Why was this incredibly strong and determined woman unable to marshal the same emotional resources

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

(Laughter) My particular favorite was a blonde woman from the Deep South who eventually admitted to me that she was really a necrophiliac,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

the typical person I meet today will be, let's say, a half-Korean, half-German young woman living in Paris.

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

And potentially, everything about the way that young woman dreams about the world, writes about the world, thinks about the world,

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview, and a woman who worked there as a messenger came up to me and said, "I really liked your novel. I didn't like the ending.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

I was not only charmed, I was very moved. Here was a woman, part of the ordinary masses of Nigerians, who were not supposed to be readers.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

Now, what if my roommate knew about my friend Funmi Iyanda, a fearless woman who hosts a TV show in Lagos, and is determined to tell the stories that we prefer to forget?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

I could see he did not trust me one bit. How could an urban, educated woman like the same food as him? Later, I broached the subject with his father,

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

sometimes to really surprising answers. An indigenous medicine woman once told me that love is to walk on Mother Earth

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

I want to introduce you to an amazing woman. Her name is Davinia.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

And actually, I wanted to run away. What could a little Chinese woman do in this neighborhood, basically overtaken by poverty, crime and violence?

How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty | Lily Yeh | TED · TED

My parents were born in the early 50s. In 1955, a white woman accused a 14-year-old boy of whistling at her. He was Black

R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | TED · TED

So my parents grew up in a time where just the accusation of whistling at a white woman could get a Black boy brutally murdered.

R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | TED · TED

Those with boats got in their boats and started loading in every woman, man and child they came across. Near and far, people gave their dollars,

Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care | Cleo Wade