Mistresses

Understand that I grew up the daughter of a culture-mad German mother who, when we traveled abroad, would wheedle ballet mistresses from the Kirov into giving my siblings and me private instruction (plying them, if need be, with eclairs and cigarettes), dragged us to Giselle 17 times, and forced us to take piano lessons. ❋ Unknown (2008)

How was sexuality less cheap hundreds of years ago when wives were the chattle of their husbands, when wives could be legally beaten for any reason, including refusing to "service" their husbands, when it was perfectly normal for husbands to maintain mistresses to fulfill the sexual needs that often were lacking in these arranged marriages, and when women were punished extremely harshly, even fatally, for engaging in the same adulterous behavior? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Residents are overwhelmingly long-term mistresses, or moonlighting wanna-bes on the lookout for a well-heeled man to keep them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Try to stick to one partner, but if you have to keep your long-term mistresses and concubines and extra wives, at least avoid short-term casual encounters with bar girls and prostitutes. ❋ Epstein, Helen (2005)

Eden himself had cried off long-term mistresses ever since the last one, who had been with him for over a year and had been devilish difficult to cast off. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1998)

To ensure that erotic friendship never grew into the aggres'sion of love, he would meet each of his long-term mistresses only at intervals. ❋ Kundera, Milan, 1929- (1984)

I speak to two educated women, who turn out to be High School mistresses from a town that has been several times visited by Zeppelins. ❋ Unknown (1916)

A married alpha male in contrast locks up his wife and long-term mistresses, and knowing most alpha males, the women who are locked up aren't 4 and 5s, but 8s and 9s. ❋ Unknown (2008)

i hope one of his mistresses is in on the phone with cnn right now. what a fool. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And for the long-suffering Chinese public, the compulsion of rich businessmen and jumped-up party officials to prove their wealth and power by the number and gorgeousness of their mistresses is a major factor in the growth of corruption. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They vie with one another as to which of their mistresses is the fairest. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)

In the first place, the houses, for the most part, are disgustingly dirty: the lower story usually consists of cells for the slaves, stabling &c.; the staircases are narrow and dark; and, at more than one house, we waited in a passage while the servants ran to open the doors and windows of the sitting-rooms, and to call their mistresses, who were enjoying their undress in their own apartments. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)

One of his mistresses was the wife of the general commanding the armed forces of the planet. ❋ Van Vogt, A. E. (1946)

And it answered, ` Ah, my mistresses, that is the house of Sultan Darai. ' ❋ Unknown (1901)

I keep going one of the first houses in Paris; I have my own meute and écurie; my mistresses are the most famous dancers and singers. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)

Gambling is only likely to be carried on by young people very much in need of money and not possessing the fortune necessary for supporting the life they lead; they gamble, then, and with this result; or else they gain, and then those who lose serve to pay for their horses and mistresses, which is very disagreeable. ❋ Alexandre Dumas Fils (1859)

The Chinese are very used to the idea of mistresses, and what one must do to keep them happy. ❋ Russell Flannery (2011)