In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

by Mona Chollet

capitalism is always engaged in selling back to us in product form all that it has first destroyed.

Whereas women learn to dream of “romance” rather than “love,” in line with a distinction established by Steinem. She writes: “The more patriarchal and gender-polarized a culture is, the more addicted to romance.”

The day that the company, which she’d been working for remotely, asked her to come into the office two days a week, she “quit, bought an ice cream cone and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.”

“the Witch is arguably the only female archetype that has power on its own terms. She is not defined by anyone else. Wife, sister, mother, virgin, whore—these archetypes draw meaning based on relationships with others. The Witch, however, is a woman who stands entirely on her own.”