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Quotes by

Angela Carter

The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder. – Angela Carter

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – Angela Carter

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. – Angela Carter

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. – Angela Carter

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. – Angela Carter

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. – Angela Carter

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. – Angela Carter

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. – Angela Carter

That is what Im looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world. – Angela Carter

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? – Angela Carter

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. – Angela Carter

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. – Angela Carter

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. – Angela Carter

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. – Angela Carter