“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.
"Busybody," review of Silkwood (1984-01-09), p. 107.
State of the Art (1985)

Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 37

Source: Northanger Abbey

Source: The Lunatic Cafe

Source: Madame Bovary

American soprano Megan Marie Hart on the male perception of iconic female characters in opera.
Source: https://www.middleclassartist.com/post/excluded-penalized-indebted-harassed-a-study-of-systemic-discrimination-against-women-in-opera?curator=MusicREDEF

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 315.

From interview with David Light