“She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.”
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Charles Bukowski555
American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
William Nicholson (1948) British screenwriter, playwright and novelist
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 35
M. K. Hobson (1969) American writer
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 5, “Dreadnought” (p. 57)
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch
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.
“[She] is not permitted to reveal as much as she is suffered to know.”
Nec tantum prodere vati
quantum scire licet.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book V, line 176 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
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
