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“Her entire future would be attending balls down in London and preparing menus for her hunsband's guests at Almont House. If her husband permitted it, she might be allowed to hold a salon and invite prominent thinkers into their parlor, but they would be the men of discovery and action. It would be her guests who came with their stories and ideas. Hazel would be seated neatly on a divan, listening. That was the closest she would come to the world of science - the edge of the bubble, permitted to listen and serve tea and smile gamely and offer her thoughts only if they were disguised as harmless witticisms. Her path was finite and certain. Educating her in anatomy would be like teaching a pig to read before the slaughter.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“Being a woman had closed many doors to Hazel Sinnett, but it had also revealed to her a valuable tool in her arsenal: women were almost entirely overlooked as people, which gave her the power of invisibility. People saw women, they saw the dresses women wore on public walks through the park, and the gloved hands they rested on their suitors’ elbows at the theater, but women were never threats.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“That is the devil. When a man cannot see a person as a person, then the devil has slipped into him and is peering out of his eyes.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“Have you never heard the saying ‘you attract more flies with honey than vinegar’?” “Why would I want to attract flies?” “Never mind.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves