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“Love is a certain kind of magic, Ursule.
“Because men believe it’s their right to tell women how to live. They tell us who to marry, what to wear, when to go out and when to stay. Some men beat their wives, and no one speaks a word about it. But despite all the power they hold over us, they feel powerless against our kind. We resist. We cause things to happen. We interfere with their plans, with what they think is the natural order. That frightens them. Men hate being afraid, so they hate us instead.”
“Knowing things makes you powerful, Morwen. You will learn that as a female, there are few enough sources of power.”
“Morwen, you’re old enough to understand something about men! They like women to look beautiful, to have good manners, to bear their sons. They don’t expect them—they don’t want them—to have minds of their own. Women must never argue, never cause scenes, never—never feel.”
Your father, like most men, is terrified of a woman who doesn’t fit his ideal of womanhood, because he doesn’t know how to control her.
any frightened man is a dangerous one.”
The depth of the cruelty and evil visited upon his family, indeed upon the world, could never be plumbed with words.
As he led her back to bed and drew her into his arms once again, she struggled not to recognize the rebel taking cover behind her submissiveness.
