“Somehow, women’s romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said “No”. They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. It is this “marry the rapist” theme that not only turned Sweet Savage Love into a best-seller but also into one of women’s most enduring romance novels.”

“Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”

“A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.”

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

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.”

“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”