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Women may be against progress because it means new pseudo-widowhoods. Space-widowhood, for instance.
At last she was on the gangplank, entering the mouth of the spaceship -- and nothing could ever stop her now. Not unless she broke down completely in front of all these hurrying, Moon-bound passengers, in plain sight of the scattered crowd which clustered on the other side of the space-field barriers. Even that possibility was denied her when two gently insistent middle-aged ladies indicated she was blocking the way.