“Why is it virtue in women to preserve what it is virtue in men to pursue? And why do we even call it virtue? Surely that is a component of the spirit, not the body.” “Perhaps,” she offered, “it is some combination of women, lacking property or much of material value, being required to have something of ourselves to sell, and men being terrified of the possibility that they could be raising someone else’s child.” “Ah.” Another pause. “I confess, I’ve never understood that fear.”
HE'S OK WITH ADOPTING I KNEW IT
