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“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

“It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook”
― Thomas Jefferson (?)

“Of all the types of men [Annabelle] had learned to manage, the “ignorant yet self-important�� type was not exactly the most challenging. Then again, when her very fate lay in the hands of such a man, it added insult to injury. Gilbert would snatch the chance of a lifetime from her here in his cramped little study and go straight back to admiring his freshly pinned butterflies in the display case on the desk between them.”
― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke

“This is a man who divorced his wife after barely a year, kept her dowry, and made her disappear. We can safely assume that he is a lost battle where women’s rights are concerned, and not squander our limited resources on him.”
― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke