Donna On her Way

"I am -- as much as any of them -- Vor. I serve. I don't question it; even when it seems like I'm putting the rest of them down, it's there. I failed at a Vor woman's duty. As a girl, I was told to be modest, prudent, and chaste -- and I failed. My father married me off to the highest bidder -- a Count! -- to make more little Vor lords, and I failed. I tried to make friends with the High Vor ladies, go to their teas, get drawn into their gossip, and instead I got too friendly with their husbands, so I failed. I pulled myself into the mold of what everyone expected of slightly damaged Vor goods, married again -- twice -- and I failed utterly. The kind of service I can do, everything I'm best at --- managing the District --- it's worth nothing if I'm not male."