This book is about 89 outstanding women. What unites these personalities, including writers and poets, actresses and artists, political and state figures, revolutionaries, warriors, saints? This question is asked by a psychiatrist. And not by chance. The theme of the norm and pathology of the creative personality - mainly in the mental sphere - has always excited the minds. Based on his own, very specific pathographic material (medical histories and diagnostic conclusions), the author comprehends these issues in their relationship. Such an analysis allows you to see what role certain mental disorders played in the process of creativity, as reflected in the works, dispelling the myth of the unconditionally negative impact of mental illness.