When Maria Pourchet becomes a mother for the first time, giving birth to a baby girl alone in a hospital, it gives her a moment to reflect on the violence inflicted on women. Neither only physical, nor only perpetrated by the patriarchy, this violence is also present in the language women employ against one another. In a poignant letter to her daughter, she her hopes that things will be different for her, so that her life will not be like that of all other women (hence the title).