When it comes to savagery that keeps on giving, women(with many exceptions, obviously) are capable of taking evil to unimaginable depths. Especially when they choose to never forgive or forget. Bitterness is a flame that burns until the last splinter is consumed.
“We women have forgotten more about cruelty than you could ever remember,” she (Elizabeth I) spits, and adds that she wants the traitors “alive when you cut out their hearts and their bowels.”