Body Quote by Hwang Jini

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

— Honore de Balzac

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they…

— Susan Griffin

I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man.

— Anonymous

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

— Juvenal

“What did a Lord need with a courtesan and why marry one? The little voice in my head screamed a warning.”

— Rae Z. Ryans

Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and…

— John Armstrong

“Yes, I am cruel—since you take so much delight in that word-and am I not entitled to be so? Man is the one who…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“What good is it to be a mere woman?” cried Esma, throwing her head back on the embroidered silk cushion. “To be married and…

— Linda Lafferty