This book is about great women in world history. Different biographies are different fates. One for the sake of boredom wrote one book and became famous all over the world, the other entered world literature as the author of the greatest horror novel. One loved to travel and circled the globe six times, filming kilometers of film, the other excelled in the traditionally male profession, paying for it with complete loneliness. One became the first top model, the other changed the world beyond recognition as a youth fashion designer... One way or another, "life is more often like a novel than our novels are like a life," wrote one of the heroines, and one cannot but agree with this.