Maria Verger was stigmatized for being free and a leftist. Teresa Pàmies, Mercè Rodoreda, Aurora Bertrana, and Teresa Juvé survived exile by working as domestic servants. Dolors Orriols was denied a press card because, according to the regime, she had to care for her son and husband. Assumpció Soler's life was made impossible for her being a single mother. Joana Raspall was expelled from the library corps. Elvira Augusta Lewi disappeared.

Certainly, the 20th century is not the century of Einstein or the atomic bomb; it is the century of women. Here in Catalonia, the 20th century was prolific in feminist demonstrations, which we need to understand in order to build an even more feminist 21st century. Provided, of course, that we don't want to perpetuate the mess that is the world today.