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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man p

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

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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

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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

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Her great merit is finding out mine — there is nothing so amiable as discernment. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. – Mary Catherwood

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