Our mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers had the subversive dignity to assert their personalities against all odds, to resist being conditioned by men (fathers, husbands, sons), family, social class, race, religion, or nation to the point of determining who they were, of overriding their essence. After Freedom, an essay turned into a surprising autobiography, Lea Ypi (Tirana, 1979), Albanian political scientist from the London School of Economics, now publishes Indignity (Ángulo Editorial and Anagrama), a painful quest into the life of her grandmother, Leman Ypi.