Nearly 100 women share priceless lessons learned through experience: trailblazers like Cecilia Chiang, who emigrated from China to become the first woman to win a James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award; Rosita Worl, working to preserve and celebrate the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Native cultures of southeast Alaska; and Imara Jones, who chaired the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on Gender Diversity and held economic policy posts in the Clinton White House; swimmer Diana Nyad and writers Carmen Agra Deedy and Eloise Greenfield. Alongside gorgeous photos, they discuss their beginnings, their influences and offer advice to the women coming up behind them. A standout profile: the founders of Gee's Bend Quilting Retreat, named for the area near Jackson, Miss., where formerly enslaved Africans later became landowners; the event attracts quilters from around the world. Their photo depicts hands joining together individual squares into something bigger, stronger--an ideal metaphor for this beautiful book. --Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness