A Rogue of One's Own Quotes

“favorite quote by Mary Wollstonecraft: I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Tristan, Lord Ballentine. Scoundrel, seducer, bane of her youth.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“I understand how being pleasant can keep the peace, but how will it win a war?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“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.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“For if a woman was a person in her own right, one could conclude she was also in possession of a mind and a heart of her own, and thus had needs of her own.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Bewildering. If it was truly in woman's nature to be an ever demure and pleasant sunbeam in the gloom, why then, it took an awful lot of ink and instructions to keep reminding woman of this nature of hers..”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“It would be unwise to keep talking. So naturally, she did keep talking.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Have you perchance considered becoming a little more likable?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“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.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“What if love makes you want to fight harder? What if you look at your daughters and see the best reason to keep campaigning for women’s liberty? Or, think of the sons who might raise hell in Parliament as long as women cannot.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“you have been the bravest woman I have ever met. I thought I knew you, but it was at best a long-enduring, boyish obsession, fraught with stung pride and fantasy. The last months have opened my eyes to the woman behind the warrior, and you exceed what my imagination pictured, and I laugh at my stupidity. Your stubborn courage humbles me. Your rage inspires me. You are like a storm moving through, rearranging whomever you touch in your wake—imagine the trouble we could cause if we joined forces.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“What puzzled her most was that nothing had been missing from her life before him — how could he feel essential now?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“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.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“How many hats does the man think a woman needs?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“I agree to a betrothal until I can be your equal before the law.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“More than a nuisance. An outright challenge, a threat. For if a woman was a person in her own right, one could conclude she was also in possession of a mind and a heart of her own, and thus had needs of her own. But the unwearyingly self-sacrificing good mother and wife must not have needs,”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Up and down the land, in brothels and manor houses alike, women sat waiting for a man to rescue them. Were they aware that the cure they were hoping for could easily become their curse?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“He had not made the rules, but he had never set out to change them, either. He had wasted a lot of time fighting the wrong wars.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“The curious thing about causes is that they usually continue well without you. The question is whether you can continue well without them.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“I know a man who tells his wife, ‘I own you, I have got a deed to you and got it recorded, I have a right to do what I please to you,’ and the law of a Christian land says she shall submit, to indecencies that would make a respectable devil blush for shame. Man, who is said to have been created in the image of God, is the lowest animal in the world, and the most cruel. It shatters my faith in the goodness of God, so much that it makes me tremble for my own reason.” Here, he stopped, and his gaze bore”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“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.” More than a nuisance. An outright challenge, a threat. For if a woman was a person in her own right, one could conclude she was also in possession of a mind and a heart of her own, and thus had needs of her own. But the unwearyingly self-sacrificing good mother and wife must not have needs, or, as Patmore’s perseveringly popular poem put it: Man must be pleased; but him to please / Is woman’s pleasure . .”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“When you look at me, I know you look right into me, because it is what you do—you look deeply.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“She had a feeling that he quite liked the devil’s advocate position. “A man’s lack of voice is connected to his lack of property,” she murmured. “A woman’s lack of voice is forever connected to the fact that she is a woman.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Just,” he repeated. “Just the truth.” “Honesty, truth. Authenticity. However you wish to call it.” “That is, in fact, a lot to ask.” She gave a shrug. “But is anything worth having without it?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“She had long assumed Tristan was careless and grew bored easily because his mind was lazy. She had been wrong. He grew bored easily because his mind was working entirely too fast.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“A yearning to control our fickle destinies.” His tone was faintly dramatic. “The cynic is but an idealist who preempts the shock of disappointment by deriding everything himself.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Lui aussi avait compris que les paroles pouvaient être des armes… et il les maniait avec une adresse redoutable”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Je suppose que, quand un homme désire vraiment quelque chose ou quelqu’un, il fera tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour l’obtenir”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Making noise sounded ominous when, from the cradle, one had been taught to be quiet.”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own