What do you think she meant by this?

Question

I watched half of the film "Elizabeth"(about Queen Elizabeth the 1st 1998) in the film she said to this guy,

"We women have forgotten more about cruelty, than you could ever hope to remember"

What do you think she meant by this?

Answer 1

She sounds very forgiving; take it at that; let bygones be bygones; no more and no less.

Answer 2

She meant that during that time and age, cruelty towards women was common place. It was a way of life for most, and was not out of the norm for a woman to be hung for suspicion of witchery, beat and tortured for disobeying her husband, or to fall victim to simple "just case" rapping’s. So she was saying that women had to learn and accept that part of life as being "the norm", because this was treatment that every woman was born into. We where seen as temptress, and a from of evil to most, which was the cause for a lot of the religious human sacrifices of women in the name of god, due to a mans weakness in the flesh. She meant that women had to forget about what they’d suffered in order to get on with life.  She stated that "you could ever hope to remember" as a means of showing him that even if he tried to phathom the most horrid crimes committed against women in those days and age, he would still only be scratching the surface of what women have suffered at the hands of man (and some women in positions of power).

Answer 3

Being that a film writer wrote the line and likely she never said such a thing, one would have to ask the writer of that line what he or she meant. As a guess, the writer was appealing to the women of the audience in order to add drama to the scene.

For real words from Queen Elizabeth I, read one of her more famous poems:

Now Leave And Let Me Rest

Now leave and let me rest. Dame Pleasure, be content-

Go choose among the best; my doting days be spent.

By sundry signs I see thy proffers are but vain,

And wisdom warneth me that pleasure asketh pain;

And Nature that doth know how time her steps doth try,

Gives place to painful woe, and bids me learn to die.

Since all fair earthly things, soon ripe, will soon be rot

And all that pleasant springs, soon withered, soon forgot,

And youth that yields men joys that wanton lust desires

In age repents the toys that reckless youth requires.

All which delights I leave to such as folly trains

By pleasures to deceive, till they do feel the pains.

And from vain pleasures past I fly, and fain would know

The happy life at last whereto I hope to go.

For words or wise reports ne yet examples gone

'Gan bridle youthful sports, till age came stealing on.

The pleasant courtly games that I do pleasure in,

My elder years now shames such folly to begin.

And all the fancies strange that fond delight brought forth

I do intend to change, and count them nothing worth.

For I by proffers vain am taught to know the skill

What might have been forborne in my young reckless will;

By which good proof I fleet from will to wit again,

In hope to set my feet in surety to remain.

Answer 4

I think it was the author's freedom to incorporate a play on the more modern saying "I've already forgotten more than you've learned."

Answer 5

That women been through more cruelty than whoever she was talking to been through. Which is total BS. Women haven't been through the h***s of war.

Answer 6

shes saying women forgive and forget so much they don't even remember it.

Answer 7

She means that women are putting up with more than they ought to, because they don't look at it as being "cruel" only "the usual".

Answer 8

Is this a school report or project?

Answer 9

My avatar......

Answer 10

whom it may concern has experimented more cruelty,than you could ever wish to see

Answer 11

I think she's basically saying women suffer more and have it worse, which of course is a flat out lie especially when you consider the fact that back in earlier times life was a lot harder, men have to worked such dangerous and terrible jobs in conditions that people cannot even begin to comprehend, often risking life and limb for very little if any pay at all.  Not to mention going to war and dying to give us our freedom while their wives and other women sleep safely in bed.

IMO

Answer 12

She meant that women have experienced much more cruelty than men ever have.