How to Kill a Witch Quotes

“It’s the twenty-first century, and we’re still banging on about gender equality? Yes. Yes, we are. And we’re going to keep banging on about it until it’s sorted.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“No matter how terrible, history must be learned from and remembered.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“When the going gets tough in any society, it is the most vulnerable who are accused of causing the damage.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“Today, we’re much less likely in our secular, Western society to say that women are being seduced by the Devil, but we still see women persecuted, marginalized, and attacked.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“Janet Horne was the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Great Britain.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“The last thing our visitors see as they leave the museum is called our ‘witch-hunt wall,’ and it’s a formula we use to break down former witch hunts,” said Rachel. “The formula is fear plus a trigger equals a scapegoat.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“This may seem unrelated, but we need to be clear that the gendered aspect of the witch trials did not go away after the trials. The fear and hatred seen in our society over three hundred years later are a straight line drawn from those days and attitudes. We must find a way to break this inheritance and put it firmly in the past, and we argue that understanding the drivers of the trials and the part that was played by embedded, often unconscious ideas about women, their worth, and their "danger" is an excellent method of confronting the past and changing the future.”
― Zoe Venditozzi, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“We must take great care to guard against a new iteration of the witch trials.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“Just as in the days of the witch trials, as the global situation worsens, people become more and more fearful. The current febrile political environment often veers dangerously to the right. Many of us anxiously contemplate the present and future realities of the climate crisis, struggle with the financial and social pressures of modern life, watch on in impotent horror at the seemingly constant worldwide conficts — all while actively participating in the emotionally heightening petri dish that is social media
We must take great care to guard against a new iteration of the witch trials.”
― Zoe Venditozzi, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“This type of confidence goes a long way—if you act like you’re right, people will generally believe you, even without evidence. We need only to look at recent British and American politicians to see how this confidence trick continues to work.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“It was only by the strenuous efforts of godly people that we managed to all but banish quarrelsome women—sorry, we mean witches—from our society.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“Throughout history, it appears that witches thrive in times of social unrest.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“Discovering that we both had a ridiculously detailed knowledge of real-life murders, we came up with a theory about why women in particular love true crime. In our view, it was down to a combination of the pragmatism of learning how not to get abducted and murdered (always useful), coupled with an element of bearing witness to all the women who were not so lucky.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“the Devil generally marks his witches with a private mark, as the witches have confessed themselves. The Devil licks them with his tongue in some private place of their body before he receives them as his servants. The mark is commonly given to them under their hair on some part of their body, so it is not easily found when searched; generally, as long as the mark is not discovered, the person who has it will never confess anything. 37”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“Given that 4,000 people were accused in Scotland, and at the time Scotland was a country of around 900,000, it is very likely that if you are Scottish or can trace your lineage back by a few centuries, you'll be likely in some way related to an accused, or perhaps even more likely, an accuser. You could be reading this now totally unaware that you are descended from an individual involved in the witchcraft trials.”
― Zoe Venditozzi, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“Sara Sheridan’s book Where Are the Women? 2 In her book, Sheridan reimagines Scotland as a place where all the streets are named after women and there are museums and grand buildings dedicated to the great women of Scotland. This complete reversal of how Scotland was actually constructed brought into sharp focus how much of our civic lives are centered on men’s achievements and how neglected Scotland’s women are in terms of being a visible part of the geography of our nation.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“See it”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: A Guide for the Patriarchy

“No matter how terrible”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“A state-sanctioned murder ae innocent folks”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“What’s fascinating about Salem is that these chilling events perfectly encapsulate the result of using a religious “solution” to address social disharmony and anxiety in an attempt to regain control.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women