Official Mistress

Famous quotes containing the words official and/or mistress:

    All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
    Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)