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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz
A high-born gifted young woman who didn't want to be a wife/mother, she wanted to be a SCHOLAR. So she went into a convent, because she knew that there, she would at least get the opportunity to read and write. And she did both. And she turned out to be a great poet.
How much great poetry/art/music/engineering/astronomy/etc. has been lost over the millennia by keeping 51% of the human race down? We'd have had jetpacks and flying cars and world peace long ago if women's intellectual potential had been nurtured equally with men's all along. Patriarchy hobbles human potential. If women are kept down, it means that all we really get out of human intellectual capacity is 49% AT BEST (assuming every single man on earth really stretches his *intellect* as far as possible.)
A high-born gifted young woman who didn't want to be a wife/mother, she wanted to be a SCHOLAR. So she went into a convent, because she knew that there, she would at least get the opportunity to read and write. And she did both. And she turned out to be a great poet.
How much great poetry/art/music/engineering/astronomy/etc. has been lost over the millennia by keeping 51% of the human race down? We'd have had jetpacks and flying cars and world peace long ago if women's intellectual potential had been nurtured equally with men's all along. Patriarchy hobbles human potential. If women are kept down, it means that all we really get out of human intellectual capacity is 49% AT BEST (assuming every single man on earth really stretches his *intellect* as far as possible.)
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