<blockquote>“A woman,” Roberta Meserole had said once, lighting a long black cigarette with a silver lighter, “hides in plain sight. Visibility, Haveline, is our most important asset—”
She looked up. Around. “Haveline,” she said, “that is not funny.”
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or, how Ankh-Morpork acquired its first female Patrician very, very quietly.</blockquote>
