Feminism Quote by Angela Carter

“I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.” quote by Angela Carter — Download Open image

““I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.””

Angela Carter

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He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

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Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

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I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

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Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

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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…

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“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.” - Angela Carter (1940-1992)”

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Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

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And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind…

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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

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