Maria, Lina, Sara, Teresa, Rosina, Iole, Francesca … testify to a strength that came from within and that led them to transform pain into resource, poverty into wealth, submission in harmony in the couple’s relationship, hard work in ability to support the family, the rigid religious education received by the Church in fidelity to the great values of marriage and morality of morals. They have benefited from what may seem to us only something negative today. They left us with a heritage of serenity and female resilience.