“This is the story depicted in Anita DeSoto’s Her Fire for Life, after Jordaens. It is a story of greed and power, not of love. It is a story of freedom and security stolen. It is a story of women who know their own minds and refuse to acquiesce, and of women’s connection with nature. It is a story of control over women’s bodies, treating them as useful objects. Sound familiar, even today?..” from an essay by Carolijn Guytonbeck