"For a normal swordswoman? To reach the standard of a House cavalier primary? You'd need years. For Nav? Three months—" (here Gideon died briefly of gratification; she revived only due to the rising horror consequent of everything else) "—and she'd be up to the standard of the meanest, most behindhand cavalier alive."
— Gideon the Ninth, p. 53
"Your cavalier," said the Lady of the Ninth quietly, "drew on my cavalier." As Gideon died gently of shock, buoyed back to this life only by the weird bruises forming at the top of her spine ...
— Gideon the Ninth, p. 75
The world rocked, but it was mainly because Harrow was shaking her shoulders. "Ha-ha," said Gideon, "first time you didn't call me Griddle," and died.
— Gideon the Ninth, p. 228
"Average dyke dies 17 times per year" factoid actually just statistical error. Average dyke dies 0 times per year. Resurrections Nav, who lives on Pluto & dies and comes back to life whenever a woman shows respect for her, is an outlier adn should not have been counted