How to Kill a Witch Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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