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The Red Planet

CHAPTER XVII
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"You a barbarian?
You whom I regard as the last word, the last charming and delightful word, in modern womanhood ?" "Of course I'm the child of my century," she cried, flushing.

"I want votes, freedom, opportunity for expansion, power--everything that can develop Betty Connor into a human product worthy of the God who made her.

But how she could fulfil herself without the collaboration of a man, has baffled her ever since she was a girl of sixteen, when she began to awake to the modern movement.

On one side I saw women perfectly happy in the mere savage state of wifehood and motherhood, and not caring a hang for anything else, and on the other side women who threw babies back into limbo and preached of nothing but intellectual and political and economic independence.

Oh, I worried terribly about it, Majy, when I was a girl.


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