Dictionary Quote by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute… In connection with what other…

— Crystal Eastman

“He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn’t even a mercenary have morals? That’s the textbook definition of a whore!”

— Nadia Scrieva

I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus would hang…

— Craig Seymour

“It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man's world; it is in the possession of herself,…

— Andrea Dworkin

“Prostitute. Whore. What did they really mean anyway? Only words. Words trailing their streamers of judgment. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in…

— Janet Fitch

“A whore is a whore is a whore. Except when he's something else completely. From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of…

— Belinda McBride

“Sewers are necessary to guarantee the wholesomeness of palaces, according to the Fathers of the Church. And it has often been remarked that the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest,…

— William Prynne

The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands…

— Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

“No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.”

— Michel Foucault

“as devadasis (prostitutes dedicated to temples or, literally, “servants of god”)”

— Gaiutra Bahadur

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature…

— Camille Paglia