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.