"Genius" is a masculine noun, but it was not for nothing that Sophocles argued: "It is worth putting a woman on a par with a man once, as she begins to surpass him." However, there were always women who did not wait for the will of circumstances to be on a par with a man, they themselves challenged society, established rules of behavior and, thanks to their independence, strong will and non-standard thinking, achieved amazing results. Such are Cleopatra, Marquise de Pompadour, Catherine II, Elena Blavatskaya, Marina Tsvetaeva, Coco Chanel, Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Thatcher and other outstanding women who will be discussed in this book.