The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel;… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? — 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
The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
