A most poignant moment of truth in the film
"The 5th Element"
young man: "What's she doing?"
elder man: "Learning our history, the last 5000 years that she's missed...
She's been asleep for quite a while you know."
young man: "Father, I know she's been through a lot, we dont have much time."
elder man: "Yes, you're right."
AND this quote from Nikola Tesla:
"Through countless generations, from the very beginning, the social subservience of women resulted naturally in the partial atrophy or at least the hereditary suspension of mental qualities which we now know the female sex to be endowed with no less than men...
BUT the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress."
http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm
