With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder.
Heifer.†“Rich man’s whore!†“At least mine can cook the food he eats. And replaces it, too.†“Now see, Dee-Ann Smith. That was just mean!
Fortune, that arrant whore, ne'er turns the key to the poor.
The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed.
I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.
Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.