The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. – 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
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
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? – Angela Carter