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

Category:
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

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

Category:
Sleep
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Other Quotes from
Love :: Relationships
category

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;– it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. – Jane Austen

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

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future –and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. – Albert Camus

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All that I know I learned after I was thirty. – Georges Clemenceau

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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, its a piece of humbug. – Max Frisch

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Marriage

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. – Marcus Garvey

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good

Without music life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Music