''Will you continue to be chosen or will you finally choose?'' The women encountered in Fabrizio De André's songs have accompanied us through life. It was enough to cross their gaze for them to become part of it: with their mystery, their courage, their dignity. Without labels, without judgment: they exist, you just have to listen to them. ''This book was born this way,'' writes Concita De Gregorio, ''from the wonder of being in so many, together, listening (...). These voices all have, it seems to me, a trait in common with Fabrizio De André. The stainless fragility. The stubbornness in moving in a stubborn and contrary direction. A wound. A weakness hidden by movement and exhibited in solitude. A tuft of hair that like a curtain leaves a glimmer and meanwhile shelters you from the world, allowing you to see it more in focus. (...) Twenty of us here have listened to the music, shared the words, edited these pages that now come to you in the hope that they will be able, with you, to do the same. Let the stories read to you as you read them.'' A book that is also a special object, an almanac of wealth of talent. Thanks to twenty female artists the songs we have loved stand up, Nina Teresa Marinella and all the others ask new questions, find a new path and a new voice.