Ankaret Wells

“One doesn't have to be fond of a person to make use of them." "That explains what the patron gets out of it, but not what the ingenii gets for betraying their own kind." Isabel taps her outsized, ragged-glass thumbnail against the table.  "Ladies write editorials declaring they don't wish for the vote," she says, with something hovering between exaggerated patience and quite the reverse.  "Mill-hands testify in courts of law that if they are forced to work in conditions of greater safety their children will starve.  People do things that run counter to their own interests all the time.  Why would ingenii be any different?" "Isabel, I'm sorry, but I cannot think about female suffrage or the rights of mill-hands just this instant," I say, and rest my forehead on my palm.”
― Ankaret Wells, Firebrand