It is truly impressive to see how a poetess writes about female writers, artists, and a scientist: Ursula Krechel has proven that she knows how to tell a story, and she narrates with unabashed passion what has happened to these women. Intelligent women rarely have an easy life if they do not wish to hide. This journey of lived life is brought to us by the experienced poetess Ursula Krechel in surprising and concentrated formulations, resulting in essayistic works where even the seemingly familiar writers confront us in such a way that we cannot escape the urgency of their existence and their work, nor do we want to. All these women stood at the beginning of their determination to assert themselves and explore what they discovered within themselves and in the world.