“Perhaps you can explain it to me, then,” she said, “how is it fair that my utterly inept cousin is in command of me, for no reason other than that he’s a man and I’m a woman? How is it fair that I master Latin and Greek as well as any man at Oxford, yet I am taught over a baker’s shop? How is it fair that a man can tell me my brain was wired wrong, when his main achievement in life seems to be his birth into a life of privilege? And why do I have to beg a man to please make it his interest that I, too, may vote on the laws that govern my life every day?”
―
Evie Dunmore,
Bringing Down the Duke
“Perhaps this is not a question of staying out of trouble, Your Grace. Perhaps this is about deciding on which side of history you want to be.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Darling," he said, "I have only begun to love you.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“favorite quote by Mary Wollstonecraft: I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“Hattie pursed her lips. “Personally, I always found a thousand ships a little excessive. And Menelaus and Paris fought over Helen like dogs over a bone; no one asked her what she wanted. Even her obsession with Paris was compelled by a poisoned arrow—what’s romantic about that?”“Passion,” Annabelle said, “Eros’s arrows are infused with passion.”“Oh, passion, poison,” Hattie said, “either makes people addle-brained.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Tell me,” he said, “how frustrating is it to be surrounded by people considered your betters when they don’t hold a candle to your abilities?” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“She looked away. "I'm well now." She wasn't; she was suffering from severe stubbornness.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“A bittersweet pull made his chest contract. He supposed that was how it felt to miss someone.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Tristan, Lord Ballentine. Scoundrel, seducer, bane of her youth.” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“Well, sitting prettily certainly doesn't seem to make a difference at all. If it did, why do we still turn into property the day a man puts his ring on our finger? I say let us try making noise for a change.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“That was why they called it temptation—it never presented itself as something ugly, or tepid, or harmless; no, it came in the guise of glorious feelings and a sense of utter rightness, even when it was wrong. That was why one needed principles. Regrettable, that her grasp on them was so shaky when it counted.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Now she knew why girls were not allowed to feel anger—there was a reckless hope in it, and power.” ― Evie Dunmore, Portrait of a Scotsman
“The world of men is a brutal place. And yet women visit our offices, approach us in the streets, and send us petitions with tens of thousands more signatures every year to ask for more freedom. They feel their safety comes at the expense of their freedom. And, gentlemen, the trouble with freedom is it isn't just an empty phrase that serves well in a speech. The desire to be free is an instinct deeply ingrained in every living thing. Trap any wild animal, and it will bite off its own paw to be free again. Capture a man, and breaking free will become his sole mission. Te only way to dissuade a creature from striving for its freedom is to break it ... I, for my part, am not prepared to break half the population of Britain. I am, in fact, unprepared to see single woman harmed because of her desire for some liberty.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Because, my lord, if the marchioness believes that the female brain is incapable of forming a sound analysis on political issues, why should anyone trust her analysis on women in politics?” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“I’m afraid the idea that a woman is a person, whether married or not, is so inherently radical no matter which way I present it I shall be considered a nuisance.” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“Bewildering. If it was truly in woman's nature to be an ever demure and pleasant sunbeam in the gloom, why then, it took an awful lot of ink and instructions to keep reminding woman of this nature of hers..” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“The possibilities may be endless, but the mind is limited. People hardly ever contemplate options outside of what they know.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“For if a woman was a person in her own right, one could conclude she was also in possession of a mind and a heart of her own, and thus had needs of her own.” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“There it was, the fire she had sensed behind the ice, smoldering at a thousand degrees hotter than leaping flames. Oh, they had it wrong, the people who called him cool and aloof. He was a man who did not do things by halves, and he knew. So he leashed himself. Untether him, and he would burn as hotly as he was cold, and the dark force of her own passion would crash against his like a wave against a rock rather than pull him under.He is my match.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Perhaps this is not a question of staying out of trouble, Your Grace. Perhaps this is about deciding on which side of history you want to be.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Darling," he said, "I have only begun to love you.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“favorite quote by Mary Wollstonecraft: I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“Hattie pursed her lips. “Personally, I always found a thousand ships a little excessive. And Menelaus and Paris fought over Helen like dogs over a bone; no one asked her what she wanted. Even her obsession with Paris was compelled by a poisoned arrow—what’s romantic about that?”“Passion,” Annabelle said, “Eros’s arrows are infused with passion.”“Oh, passion, poison,” Hattie said, “either makes people addle-brained.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Tell me,” he said, “how frustrating is it to be surrounded by people considered your betters when they don’t hold a candle to your abilities?” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“She looked away. "I'm well now." She wasn't; she was suffering from severe stubbornness.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“A bittersweet pull made his chest contract. He supposed that was how it felt to miss someone.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Tristan, Lord Ballentine. Scoundrel, seducer, bane of her youth.” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“Well, sitting prettily certainly doesn't seem to make a difference at all. If it did, why do we still turn into property the day a man puts his ring on our finger? I say let us try making noise for a change.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“That was why they called it temptation—it never presented itself as something ugly, or tepid, or harmless; no, it came in the guise of glorious feelings and a sense of utter rightness, even when it was wrong. That was why one needed principles. Regrettable, that her grasp on them was so shaky when it counted.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Now she knew why girls were not allowed to feel anger—there was a reckless hope in it, and power.” ― Evie Dunmore, Portrait of a Scotsman
“The world of men is a brutal place. And yet women visit our offices, approach us in the streets, and send us petitions with tens of thousands more signatures every year to ask for more freedom. They feel their safety comes at the expense of their freedom. And, gentlemen, the trouble with freedom is it isn't just an empty phrase that serves well in a speech. The desire to be free is an instinct deeply ingrained in every living thing. Trap any wild animal, and it will bite off its own paw to be free again. Capture a man, and breaking free will become his sole mission. Te only way to dissuade a creature from striving for its freedom is to break it ... I, for my part, am not prepared to break half the population of Britain. I am, in fact, unprepared to see single woman harmed because of her desire for some liberty.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“Because, my lord, if the marchioness believes that the female brain is incapable of forming a sound analysis on political issues, why should anyone trust her analysis on women in politics?” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“I’m afraid the idea that a woman is a person, whether married or not, is so inherently radical no matter which way I present it I shall be considered a nuisance.” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“Bewildering. If it was truly in woman's nature to be an ever demure and pleasant sunbeam in the gloom, why then, it took an awful lot of ink and instructions to keep reminding woman of this nature of hers..” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“The possibilities may be endless, but the mind is limited. People hardly ever contemplate options outside of what they know.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
“For if a woman was a person in her own right, one could conclude she was also in possession of a mind and a heart of her own, and thus had needs of her own.” ― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
“There it was, the fire she had sensed behind the ice, smoldering at a thousand degrees hotter than leaping flames. Oh, they had it wrong, the people who called him cool and aloof. He was a man who did not do things by halves, and he knew. So he leashed himself. Untether him, and he would burn as hotly as he was cold, and the dark force of her own passion would crash against his like a wave against a rock rather than pull him under.He is my match.” ― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke
