 Women are just as smart and as competent as men, so why shouldn't they have the right to vote, to run for office, to contribute to public debates? Exactly. And to do that, they need to be educated. Which is something Floresta had a lot to say about. One of her most interesting thoughts, in my view, is that education isn't just a matter of teachers and schools. Right. It also includes how you bring up your kids. When Floresta was writing, Brazil still had slavery, and people made slaves raise their children for them.