A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.
 Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three (1874). copy citation

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Author Victor Hugo
Source Ninety-Three
Topic pleasure women
Date 1874
Language English
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“of the encounters, the indignities, the conditions made, the bargains proposed and undergone, sometimes for a shelter, sometimes for a piece of bread, sometimes merely to get some one to show her the way. A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure. Frightful wandering on foot. But nothing made any difference to her so long as she found her children. Her first encounter to-day had been a village on the way; it was scarcely daybreak, everything was still bathed in the gloom of night, still some doors were already ajar in the principal street of the village, and some curious heads were looking out of the windows.” source