“The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistress.”
Saki (1870–1916) British writer
"A Young Turkish Catastrophe"
Reginald in Russia (1910)
“Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable….”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
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Harry Benjamin in The Transsexual Phenomenon http://www.symposion.com/ijt/benjamin/ (1966)
“It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.”
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Cultural and Religious Heritage of India: Islam http://books.google.co.in/books?id=e2yvoujPJCYC&pg=PA109, p. 109
“The epithet should be the mistress of the substantive, never its lawful wife.”
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) French novelist
L'épithète doit être la maîtresse du substantif, jamais sa femme légitime.
Source: Notes sur la vie (published posthumously 1899), P. 3; translation p. 338.
“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (January 15, 1889)
Letters
“You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Vol. I; LXXI
Lacon (1820)
