“And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?”
Bible
“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule”
D.H. Lawrence
“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
William Blake
“Every harlot was a virgin once.”
“And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.”
“Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.”
Walter Benjamin
“Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.”