Quote by Nicholas D. Kristof

“There were really only four kind of people in the world: men and women and wizards and witches.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Women enjoy a different history of madness. From witchcraft to hysteria we're just bad news. We know that women were condemned as witches because…

— Cormac McCarthy

“A hundred years ago they'd have burned you as a witch…" "But I'm not a witch." "I don't suppose any of them were.”

— Robert Holdstock

“Be a witch they cannot burn.”

— Nichole McElhaney

“Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?”

— Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn’t know it yet.”

— Charlie Jane Anders

Men feared witches and burned women.

— Louis D. Brandeis

“Being a witch was indeed an onerous task. If people accepted us, they wanted the impossible. If they didn't, they wanted to burn us…

— Maria E. Schneider

“all witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

— Simone de Beauvoir

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists.…

— Helen Mirren