I cannot but wonder what would have happened if all the intellect and art, lost over centuries behind closed doors under the pretense of belonging to the wrong gender, were put to use before their owners forgot they ever possessed it. Some wars might have been avoided, some new ones even created. We might have cured diseases from which people die even today. There might have been masterpieces created in the hands of ordinary women, without terming the few who had the impudence to pursue something beyond the duties assigned to the protected occupation of womanhood as outcasts.