“She just pretended to faint Your Excellency. They are all marvelous pretenders.”
Once you know that quote, bonus points: it is John Proctor, pleading with Danforth, the pinnacle judge in Arthur Miller’s famous play, The Crucible, in regards to the Salem Witch studies.
Also it distills the essence of women, whom seldom say or do just about anything which is not in certain method a work, or performance. (more…)