Rufus Wainwright

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

Canadian Musician

Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Italian Artist

Lord Byron

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

British Poet

John Kenneth Galbraith

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

American Economist

Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

French Author

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

French Writer

James Goldsmith

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

French Businessman

John Constable

Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

English Artist

Francis Bacon

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

English Philosopher

Paulo Coelho

MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.

Brazilian Novelist

Used to describe a woman who commands respect or has control in a certain setting.

Authority figure

Implies that a woman owns something, such as a business or property.

Ownership connotation

Often refers to a hidden or socially frowned-upon romantic association.

Concealed Relationship

Used when referring to a woman's ongoing romantic affair with a typically married man.

Romantic context

While historically common, this term for a female teacher is rarely used today and may sound old-fashioned.

Outdated usage

Previously, a common term in formal educational settings, particularly in private or boarding schools.

Formal education

Highlights a woman's expertise in a specific domain or practice.

Skill mastery

Suggests high skill level and is a compliment to the woman's capabilities.

Admirable talent

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 I think our enemy was physics -- and she's a cruel mistress. Often, we had to pull things out as a result because of timing or aesthetics or whatever. And so while planning is important, so is flexibility. These are all things that ended up

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 we're looking at mirrors. They are powerful reminders that our common humanity has not changed. The thrill of archaeological discovery is as powerful as love, because ancient history is the most seductive mistress imaginable.

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 streets before disappearing behind closed doors are they high-priced courtesans mistresses of seduction or something more elusive whatever a Geisha is it's more than a role it's an all-encompassing way of life though it's

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 mesmerizing mistress of perpetual reinvention dyeing her hair again Madge again in her goatee a pointy poor outfit so the Queen with a fire extinguisher between her legs because it was that

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 Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation

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 woo a mistress into one of them another female is charmed by his call and tempted into his second box to breed but as soon as she lays eggs he races across

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 literally loaf maid, or, more figuratively, kneader of bread. As early as the ninth century, hlafdige was the name for a mistress of servants,

Mistress