“Men call bright women dim whenever they are threatened. So, take no relief in the names that any man calls thee. There is no safe harbor there.”
If you wanted to be hanged in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, be female, smart, and opinionated. That was the trifecta that led to the noose. (Among my favorite books I read while researching this novel was Carol Karlsen’s THE DEVIL IN THE SHAPE OF A WOMAN. It’s fantastic – and gets bonus points for a great title.)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/982462.The_Devil_in_the_Shape_of_a_Woman
And yet one of the ways that men diminish women today was common then, too: demean their intellect.
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