If you are, or have been the victim of slanderous words from your spouse, your child, family, friends or even a stranger, then you know the effects can be devastating. Maybe you or someone you know has been the target of false accusations, name calling or even bullying and you have never really recovered from it. Whether they look down on you for what you don't have, or they are intimidated by what you do have, words hurt. When a person speaks negative of you it does not define you; it confirms that there is something special about you that you cannot see. You are victory and success waiting to manifest. It is what God says that matters and His word is the final word. This book is about people who have been criticized, falsely accused and abused just because of who they are. It's also about favoritism, marriages destroyed and broken friendships. It identifies the motives behind the insults, the traumatizing effects it can have on a person, the possible repercussions, and it reveals who's really behind it all, and teaches you how to deal with your oppressors. This God inspired book gives an inside look into the author's person trials, tragedies, and triumph, and reveals a family secret about the day words became actions and the miracle that followed. Hillary Thompson is a single mother, evangelist, inspirational speaker and teacher. Once a victim of childhood and spousal abuse, she delivers power packed messages with an emphasis on healing through forgiveness.

From award-winning author, Evelyne Accad, Wounding Words tells the story of Hayate, a young student in Tunisia, as she struggles to cope under the everyday injustices around her. After seeing too many of her cousins die under the blows of their husbands, Hayate promises herself to do everything she can to avoid the same fate. Her hope lies in a drastic move to Tunisia - hailed to be the most democratic and inclusive country in the Arab world. Yet what she finds when she arrives is a starkly different reality. Following Hayate's journals as a feminist scholar, Wounding Words offers a thought-provoking and intelligently written account of feminism as it exist across the world, asking how women everywhere can live day-to-day by its values.

Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.

Contends that "experimental" writing--from Mallarme, Stein, and Cage to contemporary poets of the eighties and nineties--can teach us much about how we write and read both poetry and criticism.