“She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.”

Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 35

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

Source: p.144

Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 5, “Dreadnought” (p. 57)

Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)

The Stereotype
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Context: The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. All she must contribute is her existence. She need achieve nothing, for she has herself no sex at all. her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. All she must contribute is her existence. She need achieve nothing, for she is the reward of achievement. She need never give positive evidence of her moral character because virtue is assumed from her loveliness, and her passivity.

Book V, line 176 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia

Variant: If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Source: Guitar Chord Songbook - Bob Marley

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances