The analysis of the narratives of Chilean women exiled by the dictatorship provides interpretative keys, from which the daily experience of exile is explored in depth. The first section contextualizes the presence of women's exile narratives in the fascicles of the series "Vivir sin Chile" of Revista Hoy, exposing the characteristics of the textual corpus and categorizing the daily experience for the analysis of the narrative corpus. In the following two sections, defeat and feminism are presented as interpretative keys to the daily experience of exile, based on the analysis of women's narratives. In the conclusion, some of the characteristics and tensions between these keys are presented, as well as some reflections on the theoretical-political contributions that women's narratives provide to the exile field.