"A mother is always a mother, since a……" — Angela Carter
"A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast."
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129 Quotes by Angela Carter
Angela Carter has 129 quotes on this site.
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience…
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a…
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!
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Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults…
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A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
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More Biological Quotes
This quote is filed under Biological Quotes,
one of 550 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.
— Michele Bachmann
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
— Dave Barry
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why…
— Dave Barry
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat…
— Tony Blair
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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks…
— Madeleine Albright
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What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a…
— Octavia Butler
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only…
— Fred Allen
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Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues…
— Kim Cattrall
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
— George Steiner
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