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Facts were facts. But the storyteller steered the narrative and the narrative steered public perception. It was an invisible power.
“The real question is, who the heck’s going to support the most scandal-ridden president in recent memory running again?
Male jurors—and of course, all jurors were male—didn’t want to believe women were capable of murder. It threatened their sense of safety and world order, where only they were capable of passion, violence, and retribution.
Leave it to a man to think he should decide a woman’s identity, instead of honoring her as she’d wished to be known.
grateful it was 1923. It had been only five years since public buildings were required to have female-access restrooms.
a spinster, enjoying her glorious solitude, wholly in control of her destiny. It had always seemed a woman’s highest pinnacle of success and happiness was to marry well and raise a family. Spinsters were to be pitied. But spinsters were unencumbered by foolish husbands who dragged them into the fiery clutches of hell.
The women, as always, would pay the price.
