“No matter what Sergeant Mullins says,” she declared, “I intend to help him fix supper. It isn‘t right for an able-bodied woman to stand aside and allow a man to do all the cooking.”
Sometimes you have to remember to consider the time in which a book was published, or the time in which its set. Or the gender of the author, though to be fair many of his female characters are well written strong capable women.
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