Quote by Angela Carter
The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has ma

The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder. – Angela Carter

Other quotes by Angela Carter

That is what Im looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world. – Angela Carter

Category:
Learning
Read Quote

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

Category:
Sleep
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Prostitution
category

If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters? – Bernard Mandeville

Category:
Prostitution

There is no more defiant denial of one mans ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. – Gail Sheehy

Category:
Prostitution

If a woman hasnt got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, shes a dry stick as a rule. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Category:
Prostitution

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician — these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin. – Polly Adler

Category:
Prostitution

Random Quotes

Hes this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What weve made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. Its been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes. – Zack Snyder

Category:
amazing

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

Category:
Innocence

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James Baldwin

Category:
Education

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. – R. Buckminster Fuller

Category:
Home