" I have made myself exceptional. It is a wonderful game, is it not? Because I am exceptional, anything I achieve does not reflect on my own sex, for of course I am not like them. Strange, though, how that division seems to vanish when we are speaking instead of my shortcomings. Then I am a woman, like any other. "

― Marie Brennan , In the Labyrinth of Drakes (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #4)