Quotation

[quote part 2] She smiled. “Yes, very likely. There were men in these salons, too. Charles Perrault – you know, the writer of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’? He was always with these women. His own niece had a salon, a very famous one. But where her princesses were strong and stood up for their rights, her uncle’s heroines were meek and weak and beautiful, and needing to be rescued.” “So why, “I asked, “did his stories survive all this time, while hers haven’t?” “Because he was a man. And because the society those women skewered with their stories was just as quick to skewer them for their success, for being popular. It happens still today, I think. . . .”