“Society is afraid of both the feminist and the murderer, for each of them, in her own way, tests societies establish boundaries… Nor is it surprising that the panic provoked by feminism and the alarm at female criminality coincide almost perfectly, as though according to some plan.”
Ann Jones, women who kill, 1980

I’m not sure if this is right but what I drew out of this quote is that society is afraid of women and what they’re capable of and the power that women have beyond their own home. And from my interpretation I thought of how society today looks at women in power. It’s ironic and quite sad when women in a high position in the work place is categoriezed/looked upon as if we either A) slept our way to the top or B) worked so hard that we are considered a bitch/prude/ and sometimes masculine etc. i feel that women are only looked at this way because it is men who are intimidated by such success in a person of the opposite sex. I also was interested in this quote because it reminds me of the power dynamic of female characters through out In Search of Lost Time. Several women such as Odette and Albertine have this hold on their men  and it makes the male characters crazy-obsessed not only with them but with getting the upper hand on them. There was a time in “The Guermantes Way” when Odette says that men can be manipulated to do anything by a woman. If this is so, it makes me wonder and its unfortunate to say that women who are aware or have this power over any male or even another individual can use this to their advantage for the good or for the bad.