The issue of the female subject cannot be separated from the multiple ways in which Isabelle de Charrière recognized and expressed herself as someone besides all kinds of norms. This article lists the numerous ways in which Charrière was out of step in order to grasp the point of view from which, as a novelist (and author of Sainte Anne in particular, 1799), she articulated her own gender-informed vindication of the human mind, according to which women as well as men belong to humanity.