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"A man who loses a battle with his king may be forgiven, but a man who win such a battle is doomed."

"It did not occur to them that a woman can be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars or going on crusades? Why, it had been a woman, the Empress Maud, who caused the civil war that had gone for fifteen years! Yet, these wooden-headed men-at-arms did not expect a woman to be an enemy agent because it was not a normal thing."