Cunning Women Quotes

“Better to embrace what lies within yourself than search for happiness in another,’ she says. ‘Don’t be feared to discover your own power.”
― Elizabeth Lee, Cunning Women: A feminist tale of forbidden love after the witch trials

“But wield it with care, lass, do not go blasting out your fury and letting all know it was you. They fear it.”
― Elizabeth Lee, Cunning Women: A feminist tale of forbidden love after the witch trials

“I am no more guilty than the so-called God-fearing, according to the tales John brings of those lying with others’ wives, beating their children and placing pebbles instead of coins in the collection plate. Yet they condemn us. If this is what it is to be church folk I would rather be cast out.”
― Elizabeth Lee, Cunning Women: A feminist tale of forbidden love after the witch trials

“At least he was choosing who wielded power over him. There was a wildness to the thought, a freedom, that set him alight as much as it chilled him to the core.”
― Elizabeth Lee, Cunning Women: A feminist tale of forbidden love after the witch trials

“I am cunning folk, and can be no other.”
― Elizabeth Lee, Cunning Women: A feminist tale of forbidden love after the witch trials