This book is inspired by the stories of the following thirty women impacting the society at large, Rosa Parks, Angela Burdett-Coutts, Florence Nightingale, Ada Lovelace, Emmeline Pankhurst, Margaret Thatcher, Rosalind Franklin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marie Curie, Marie Stopes, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Virgin Mary, Jane Austen, Boudicca, Diana-Princess of Wales, Amelia Earhart, Queen Victoria, Josephine Butler, Mary Seacole, Mother Teresa, Mary Shelley, Catherine the Great, Vera Atkins, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Fry, Mary Anning, Joan of Arc, Isabella of Castile, Catherine of Siena and Wangari Maathai.