"Personality--first and last, and at all costs. I've begun my talk to you with that one word because it seems to me to sum up our whole case. Personality--room to develop in: not only elbow-room but body-room and soul-room, and plenty of both. That's what every human being has a right to. No more effaced wives, no more drudging mothers, no more human slaves crushed by the eternal round of housekeeping and child-bearing--" She stopped, drew a quick breath, met Nona's astonished gaze over rows of bewildered eye-glasses, and felt herself plunging into an abyss. But she caught at the edge, and saved herself from the plunge-- "That's what our antagonists say--the women who are afraid to be mothers, ashamed to be mothers, the women who put their enjoyment and their convenience and what they ca

