Wisdom Quote by Oliver Pötzsch

“This was dangerous talk—in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of…

— Joss Alexander

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

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

“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

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

Men feared witches and burned women.

— Louis D. Brandeis

“sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more witches were burned than wizards?”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh rose the…

— Leah Harris

“The witch wasn’t a woman, not really. She was evil wrapped in horror, tied neatly with a bow of rancid blood and sour anguish.”

— Laken Cane

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

— Thomas Szasz

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

— Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

“Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance…

— Jude Deveraux