“Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her.” — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Although her father had told her of the nature of the one who waited for her, she could not control an instinctual… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. — Angela Carter Copy Share
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. — Angela Carter Copy Share
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the window of her eyes… — Angela Carter Copy Share
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. — Angela Carter Copy Share
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on… — Angela Carter Copy Share
“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction,… — Angela Carter Copy Share
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! — Angela Carter Copy Share
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind… — Angela Carter Copy Share
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter Copy Share
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us… — Angela Carter Copy Share
I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. — Angela Carter Copy Share
“Women do not normally fuck in the active sense. They are fucked in the passive tense and hence automatically fucked-up, done over, undone.” — Angela Carter Copy Share
