Lady Macbeth?

Question:In Act III, Scene 4, 60th line, Lady Macbeth performs a soliloquy. She says," ...O! these flaws and starts-Impostors to ture fear-would well become a woman's story at a winter fire, authoriz'd by her grandam..."

However, I quite don't understand what she means when she says "a woman's story at a winter fire, authroiz'd by her grandam". What is a woman's story? Why is it authorized by her grandam?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: In Act III, Scene 4, 60th line, Lady Macbeth performs a soliloquy. She says," ...O! these flaws and starts-Impostors to ture fear-would well become a woman's story at a winter fire, authoriz'd by her grandam..."

However, I quite don't understand what she means when she says "a woman's story at a winter fire, authroiz'd by her grandam". What is a woman's story? Why is it authorized by her grandam?

It's not technically a soliloquy, since she's talking to Macbeth at this point. That being said, she's chiding him for looking fearful in front of his guests and saying that his appearance of fear is like something out of a story being told by a woman who got it from her grandmother. It's all the more shameful because it's something that would be shocking to an old lady.

As a wise man once said don't say the m word because it's cursed. For lady m she saying that she has been authorized by her grandma this woman's story is been passed down in her family.