Introduction

by Elizabeth S. Greywolf

These amazing women I’ve researched and reacted to, much as small steel shavings are drawn to magnets. They have an irresistible attracting power which I hope will draw you too, to learn more about them. (I have included very basic biographical information at the end of each poem; that information only lightly touches the edge of each heroine’s life.)   

Some of these heroic women were familiar to me, many were not.  Reaching into their lives became an exciting, invigorating, and rewarding way to enrich three years of my life. Each of these women has managed to accomplish (against great odds) lives that made the world a better place.