He smiled at her, and she felt uncomfortable as she always did when he showed her affection as opposed to lust. Lust she expected from a man but not affection. The men in her life, her brothers and father, had not been affectionate; and lust would have been inappropriate, though she saw them direct that at other women, usually women of low rank, ripe to be used and cast aside

He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him

He was magnificent, and I will never forget that in that moment, I first loved him. And I never stopped loving him. I do now and always will. No one ever broug…

for when women take revenge, it is with all their hearts and souls, not to mention considerable inventiveness and ingenuity

This book is the account of a personal experience - so personal that for four years I could not bring myself to write it. It is different from anything else I …

Interviewer: I read a post on the Internet from a young girl who had been victimized by someone and her position was like, 'I can talk about this now because F…

My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not ge…