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Herland

CHAPTER 6
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She started from her chair, pale, her eyes blazing.
"Destroy the unborn--!" she said in a hard whisper.

"Do men do that in your country ?" "Men!" I began to answer, rather hotly, and then saw the gulf before me.

None of us wanted these women to think that OUR women, of whom we boasted so proudly, were in any way inferior to them.

I am ashamed to say that I equivocated.

I told her of certain criminal types of women--perverts, or crazy, who had been known to commit infanticide.


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