{"quotes":[{"text":"Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adultery","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","cheat","cheater","cheaters","cheating","commit","commitment","concubine","concubines","courtesan","courtesans","date","dating","funny","girlfriend","girlfriends","heartbreak","heartbreaker","heartbreakers","heartbreaking","heartbroken","hetaera","hetaerae","hetaeras","hetaira","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","hurt","hurting","hurts","infidelity","joke","jokes","kept-woman","kept-women","love","marriage","marriages","marry","mistress","mistresses","relationship","relationships","satire","side-chick","side-chicks","side-dick","side-dicks","wedding","weddings"],"id":17425,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.","author":"Susan Griffin","tags":["courtesans","virtue","women"],"id":362241,"author_id":"Susan+Griffin"},{"text":"Happy?' asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. 'Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.","author":"Honoré de Balzac","tags":["courtesans","happiness","loneliness","love","pleasure","relationships","sadness","sorrow"],"id":437898,"author_id":"Honor%C3%A9+de+Balzac"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}