The Modern Woman With a Sense of Humor
There was a Modern Woman with a sense of humor.
“I shall,” she said, “teach to women the absurdity of bearing children to be killed by cannon.”
“The absurdity!” exclaimed the men of the State, aghast at levity.
“Yes,” answered she, “it isn’t worth the trouble!” And she lifted her eyebrows and smiled, but in her eyes there was Knowledge.
And the men of the State were more terrified by the phenomenon of The Modern Woman with a Sense of Humor than by any phenomenon that had before confronted them.