Women celebrated in the book include Madame C. The intrepid women are the antithesis of the traditional damsels in distress rather than waiting for the prince they took salvation into their own hands. The book offers hope to those undergoing their own Sisyphean struggles. Each chapter will outline the fall and rise of great ladies who smashed all obstacles, rather than let all obstacles smash them. It embodies the strength of character of the women profiled. Just as Invicitus brought solace to generations so does the contemporary classic. Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. The inspirational verse was by the Victorian William Ernest Henley, penned on the occasion of the amputation of his leg. When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa s brutal Robben Prison, he tirelessly turned to the poem Invicitus.
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