“You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth.""Her wealth," Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: "Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value...”
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tehanu
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