The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

by Mackenzi Lee

Because I was born a girl but too stubborn to accept the lot that came with my sex.

Thank God for friends who learn to speak to you in your own language rather than making you learn theirs.

You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.

“Well then, you might consider covering up table legs lest the mere reminder of the existence of the female form send your students into an erotic frenzy.”

“I’m talking about menstruation, sir!”

Of course, the moment I get around other females my own age, I end up socializing with the dog.

“Is there something ridiculous about being feminine?” “To men there is.”

like books and silks.

I couldn’t be neglected if I was everything to myself.

because the moment a strong-willed woman shows weakness, men will push their fingers into it and pry her apart like a pomegranate.

“That’s the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”

“If we leave them undisturbed, we also leave them unknown,”

I do not want easy or small or uncomplicated. I want my life to be messy and ugly and wicked and wild, and I want to feel it all.