10 Reasons Supernatural's Rowena Is the Baddest Witch in Town

When Crowley asks Rowena why she hates him so much, she gives him the raw and painful truth, no chasers. In a poignant moment, she replies, "I hate you, because when I look into your eyes I see the woman I used to be, before magic, before the coven. When I was nothing but Rowena, the tanner's daughter. A pale, scared little girl, who smelled of filth and death." She tells him that if she didn't hate him, she would love him, and that love, to her, is weakness. In this poignant moment, we learn how Rowena's complicated and tragic past fuels her thirst for power and prestige.