"Being a woman's woman all the time means never competing with another woman, 'cause if you're competing for a job, you're holding us all back. Please make room for both of you. If you're competing for the same man/woman, what the winner's getting is no prize. If you're competing in some deeper, vaguer sense with every woman out there--to be prettier, get married sooner, or look younger longer--you are living in the Dark Ages."--Jane Pratt, quoted in 'Laws of the Bandit Queens,' by Ali Smith, which is lying around Rachel's house.