Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

Consider this a fair warning.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.