The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)

by Olivia Waite

The point of fashion is not for the gentlemen: they call it trivial because they cannot bear the thought of women having a whole silent language between themselves.

She ought to have paid more attention to her own self before now. She ought to have allowed herself to want things.

Every generation had women stand up and ask to be counted—and every generation of brilliant, insightful, educated men has raised a hand and wiped those women’s names from the greater historical record.”