In this collection of interviews twenty-five Texas women ranging in age from 53 to 93 share the wisdom they've required through living unconventional lives. Barbara Jordan ,Liz Carpenter ,Marj Carpenter ,Jody Conradt ,Wilhelmina Delco ,Linda Ellerbee ,Juliet Villarreal Garci´a ,Carmen Lomas Garza ,Glenna Goodacre ,Kay Bailey Hutchison ,Barbara Jacket ,Edith Irby Jones ,Ninfa Laurenzo ,Amy Freeman Lee ,Sarah McClendon ,Diana Natalicio ,Violette Newton ,Guadalupe C. Quintanilla ,Louise B. Raggio ,Irma Rangel ,Ann Richards ,Mary Lou Robinson ,Sarah Weddington ,Judith Zaffirini ,Epilogue / Pauline Durrett Robertson.