Evie Dunmore

I could take on anything, but don’t have to put up with
everything

She hugged her arms around herself tightly. What a gift this was, a room of her own.

“I’m not ruined,” he said, “but what I have done for far too long is make decisions that satisfied my duty, but not my personal integrity. The two are not always the same, I found.”

For Opa,

who taught me I could take on anything, but don’t have to put up with
everything.

“Dripping water hollows the stone—Ovid

She was a phantom of delight,

When first she gleam’d upon my sight

A dancing shape, an image gay,

To haunt, to startle, and waylay . . .

Unless you are wealthy. Then it serves to display wealth.”

Mary Wollstonecraft: I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.