The Earl Who Isn't Quotes

“The right to self-determination as a global matter does, in fact, go hand in hand with the right of any marginalized group to be able to participate in their future by voting, by volunteering, and by electing them to leadership positions. We are better when it is all of us.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“Andrew hadn’t realized that wealth actually meant living in a private museum, surrounded by history that had been taken as spoils from the countries you plundered. Wealthy meant owning items the public should have held in common. It meant treading on carpet in shoes, uncaring of the damage you did underfoot.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“If women were not competent,” Lily said, “the world would have fallen to pieces, a million times over. Instead, we hold everything together, because at this moment, the men do not.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“Because men get angry when they’re not in charge.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“Andrew had very little confidence, but he had stubbornness, and at a distance, that rhymed with hope.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“First, that everybody asked where you had come from and what you’d been doing with your life. But second, that you were expected to look away from wrongs and not say a word—that if a man raised a hand to his wife, people considered it polite to pretend it wasn’t happening. It was baffling. They were silent about all the wrong things.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“You learn a lot about a person by the gifts they give,” Mrs. Uchida said. “Our deepest gifts—the ones we give over and over to complete strangers—are the things we most need ourselves.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“The correspondence selling leases mostly praised the prime quality of the land. Later, there were requests for assistance putting down riots because of famine. That man gave a lecture and made up an entire thing that didn’t happen so that we might rest easy about killing people.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“are we perhaps evil?’ it is shocking how often the answer appears to be ‘oh, yes, but it’s nothing to worry about because it makes us wealthier, and that’s good.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“Look at Chloe, after all—she was everything a woman was supposed to be; she’d won everything imaginable, and people still made her question whether she was good enough.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“For the first time in her life, filled with a rage that somehow, she’d always held so deep inside her that even she had never perceived it until now, Lily came to a conclusion that shook her to her core. Maybe the problem was not her. Maybe it was everyone else.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“In small print, it says: ‘for he is a man, and yet despite this grievous shortcoming, he is aware that those who are not men are also people.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“No, I don’t think everyone wants justice. If they did, we might have more of it.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't

“The suffragist who had spoken to her in Dover hadn’t believed in equal rights for all. She’d wanted an equal opportunity to share in the dominion over others.”
― Courtney Milan, The Earl Who Isn't