"Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant……" — Angela Carter
"Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism."
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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 Britain Quotes
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
— Tony Benn
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
— Tony Blair
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
— Tony Blair
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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the…
— Tony Blair
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new…
— Tony Blair
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
— Bono
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
— David Bowie
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The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers…
— Bill Bryson
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of…
— Bill Bryson
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's…
— Julie Burchill
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