Quote by Angela Carter
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

Other quotes by 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

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Age
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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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Pornography
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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

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Love :: Relationships
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. – Henri Frederic Amiel

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. – W. H. Auden

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression. – Allen J. Boone

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. – Woody Allen

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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings. – Haile Gebrselassie

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Experience

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. – Michel de Montaigne

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Joy, Excitement

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. – Phil Jackson

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strength

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like. – David Baldacci

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cool