accidental-rambler: read in 2019 Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore “Perhaps you can expla

accidental-rambler:

read in 2019 Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

“Perhaps you can explain it to me, then, how is it fair that my utterly inept cousin is in command of me, for no reason other than that he’s a man and I’m a woman? How is it fair that I master Latin and Greek as well as any man at Oxford, yet I am taught over a baker’s shop? How is it fair that a man can tell me my brain was wired wrong, when his main achievement in life seems to be his birth into a life of privilege? And why do I have to beg a man to please make it his interest that I, too, may vote on the laws that govern my life every day?”