A Rogue of One's Own (A League of Extraordinary Women, #2)

by Evie Dunmore

“Ma’am, 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.”

After all, sometimes, one had to meet great challenges with equally great artillery.

She had not yet truly comprehended power then, and how treacherously easy it was to side with it, and to ask that the downtrodden ones change before one demanded the tyrant change.

Idealism, cynicism. Two sides of the same coin.”

“The cynic is but an idealist who preempts the shock of disappointment by deriding everything himself. Both have expectations that are rather too lofty.

“Also, do not confuse weakness and vulnerability. The two are hardly the same.”