Mistress Quotes
Chess is called a good mistress but a bad master, highlighting the tension between control and freedom. Other quotes compare love and tenderness to the power of a mistress, even invoking ancient ideas of a divine feminine creator. Some speak of devotion to a lover as a daily duty.
![“However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night inorder for them to be better…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ea1/marcel-proust-114_calm_however-the-danger-in-socially-unbalance_1850171.jpg)
![“Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably…” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ae7/george-washington-257_bounds_upon-the-decease-of-my-wife-it-is-my-wil_3182279.jpg)
