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> [For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/for-most-of-human-history-literature-both-fiction-and-poetry-has-been/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

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## More by Angela Carter

> [He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/he-was-a-lovely-man-in-many-ways-but-he-kept-on-insisting-on/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/reading-a-book-is-like-re-writing-it-for-yourself/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/losing-their-names-these-things-underwent-a-process-of-uncreation/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/i-know-that-whenever-a-group-of-women-are-gathered-together-the/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the window of her eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/she-herself-is-a-haunted-house-she-does-not-possess-herself-her/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/hollywood-was-the-place-where-the-united-states-perpetrated-itself-as/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/is-not-this-whole-world-an-illusion-and-yet-it-fools-everybody/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/my-paternal-grandmother-would-not-light-a-fire-on-the-sabbath-and/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/mother-goddesses-are-just-as-silly-a-notion-as-father-gods-if-a/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire-what-is-marriage-but-prostitution/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/and-each-stroke-of-his-tongue-ripped-off-skin-after-successive-skin/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/in-a-secular-age-an-authentic-miracle-must-purport-to-be-a-hoax-in/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/we-do-not-go-to-bed-in-single-pairs-even-if-we-choose-not-to-refer-to/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/i-see-her-as-a-series-of-marvellous-shapes-formed-at-random-in-the/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

> [“Women do not normally fuck in the active sense. They are fucked in the passive tense and hence automatically fucked-up, done over, undone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/women-do-not-normally-fuck-in-the-active-sense-they-are-fucked-in-the/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

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