“The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her
work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did
not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said
the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex
had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and
then called her weak. ”
I understand how John Watson could get lost in the Afghan dessert (heck, a good orange-saffron Halwa can distract me for hours), but I'm almost certain he wouldn't be able to save the life of a soldier whose leg had been shredded by a land mime. Land mimes are just too deadly. Silent, but deadly.”