“We have a saying, we travelers: ‘For a man’s business, go to your troupe leader; for a woman’s business, go to Women’s Country. For a fool’s business, go to the warriors.”

—  Sheri S. Tepper, book The Gate to Women's Country

Source: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 16 (p. 173)

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