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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

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

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Sleep
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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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dad
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Other Quotes from
Love :: Relationships
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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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Love :: Relationships

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

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Love :: Relationships

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

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Love :: Relationships

The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells — and he smelled real nice. – Sandra Bullock

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Love :: Relationships

Random Quotes

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who dont. – Robert Benchley

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Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. – Margaret Atwood

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Age

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. – Don DeLillo

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Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic. – Tippi Hedren

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Fear