which author/book?

[rmawhinney]

which author/book opens with the line
"There were plenty of schools in the world but they were all run either by the various churches or the guilds. Miss Butts objected to the churches on logical grounds, and deplored the fact that the only guilds that considered girls worth educating were the theives and the seamstresses.....

[shaneystar2]

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett