is more than metaphor. Sometimes, when a woman’s words didn’t enter the historical record, her cutting actions did. For example, Michele de Cuneo, an Italian nobleman who sailed with Columbus, described trying to rape an indigenous woman in the Americas. He ended up cut:
While I was in the boat I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me, and with whom, having taken her into my cabin, she being naked according to their custom, I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want it and treated me with her finger nails in such a manner that I wished I had never begun.
So let us end with a description from the year 1100, of the Japanese female samurai Tomoe Gozen:
Once her sword was drawn, even gods and devils feared to fight against her. Indeed, she was a match for a thousand.
Let each voice in this book be a match for a thousand. Let each voice cut.
Jessie KindigNew York City, 2020
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