But like so many of her compatriots, she has not taken a single day of menstrual leave.
Beneath the sadistic surface, there is a strange cultural masochism in Larsson, as in his compatriot Henning Mankell, whose collected works I once feasted on through a single winter, with the kind of gusto that only crime fiction can excite.
He missed the record for the fastest hundred in Twenty20 cricket by a single ball as he took 46 to reach his ton, one more than his compatriot Richard Levi against New Zealand in 2012.
His compatriot Just Fontaine set a record for the most goals in a single World Cup when he netted 13 times on the way to the semi-final in Sweden in 1958.
The Baltimore Bullet also has the record for most gold medals at a single Games, winning eight in Beijing in 2008 to eclipse the mark set by compatriot Mark Spitz in 1972.
He also said that Russian compatriots, wherever they live in the former Soviet Union, are part of a single Russian nation – meaning he could conceivably make moves to ensure their "protection" too.
Just as one man in Tiananmen held back the tanks with a single act of courage, single acts like the ceaseless work of Fan and his compatriots across the country can stand athwart the juggernaut that is the fossil fuel economy and begin to shift it, ever so slightly at first but then more and more and more, in a new direction.
Never before in even Palmer's long lifetime have five majors passed without a single American winner, so does that mean he will be rooting for one of his compatriots this weekend?
The France midfielder prepared for the clash with his compatriots having revealed in an interview back at home that he might have had the chance to leave Tyneside after a single season this summer with Tottenham interested in acquiring his services.
Identi.ca and its Laconica compatriots may have garnered a dedicated developer-focused version of Twitter's high-visibility crowd, but there's no papering over the weaknesses of a single point of failure at the center of the potential platform.
