In all our discussions and speculations we had always unconsciously assumed that the women, whatever else they might be, would be young. Most men do think that way, I fancy. "Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother. We looked for nervousness–there was none. For terror, perhaps–there was none. For uneasiness, for curiosity, for excitement–and all we saw was what might have been a vigilance committee of women doctors, as cool as cucumbers, and evidently meaning to take us to task for being there. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The women of the Titanic were calm and collected, poised and ready for a confrontation. They overwhelmed the male passengers with their sternness, yet still remained calm and collected. The mystery of their actions is still a debate among historians.

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