It changed you profoundly. Everyone's experience is different.

But Maleficents life wasn't determined by that event, nor was it worse. Yes, she threw a proper fit initially, but it faded and was replaced with love.

I don't like that characterization of rape, either. Why couldn't her revenge be just that: revenge for a shitty, cowardly act? Why does the rape (and therefore the rapist) get to change her whole identity?

"The question was asked, 'What could make a woman become so dark? To lose all sense of her maternity, her womanhood, and her softness?'"