"Whether Hedy Lamarr's work in spread-spectrum technology was purposefully disregarded or unconsciously forgotten, it appears that embedded in that oversight were misconceptions about her abilities -- about all women, really. Faulty assumptions about women's capabilities, stemming in part from the conscripted roles into which they'd been slotted, has caused many to think more narrowly about the manner in which the past has been shaped. But unless we begin to view historical women through a broader, more inclusive lens -- and rewrite them back into the narrative-- we will continue to view the past more restrictively than it likely was, and we risk carrying those perspectives over into the present."
-from Author's Note, "The Only Woman in the Room"