Daughters and Dames, poets and politicians, composer and psychoanalyst, academics and activists, broadcasters and barristers, mothers and sisters, novelists and impresarios, journalists and comedians, doctor and playwright, cultural commentators and artists, wives and writers. Here are fifty shades and more, of women who think, who act, who inspire - in technicolour. . Naomi AldermanTahmima AnamLisa AppignanesiMargaret AtwoodJoan BakewellCamila BatmanghelidjhAlison BechdelBidishaLydia CachoShami ChakrabartiJane CzyzselskaSayantani DasGuptaLaura DockrillLynne FeatherstoneCarlene FirminLennie GoodingsLinda GrantNathalie HandalNatalie HaynesSharon HaywoodLindsey HilsumIsabel HiltonRachel HolmesSiri HustvedtJude KellyLiz KellyHelena KennedyKathy LetteKate MosseSusie OrbachLaurie PennyLisa PowerNina PowerAlissa QuartDiana QuickJosie RourkeBee RowlattElif Shafak Muneeza ShamsieHanan Al-ShaykhElaine ShowalterPosy SimmondsGillian SlovoAhdaf SoueifMartha SpurrierJuliet StevensonAlice StrideMeera SyalShirley ThompsonSandi ToksvigNatasha WalterMarilyn WaringTimberlake WertenbakerJeanette WintersonXinránPussy Riot