Best Angela Carter Quotes
- The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Enormous
- Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the… Change
- Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as… Abstract
- Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. Aged
- Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe. Another Name
- We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the… All
- Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means… Acknowledge
- The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence… Clever
- It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our… Age
- Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. Destroyed
- Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream… Ancient
- There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off. Brush
- He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised. Buggering
- My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic… Been
- A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar Borrow
- A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. Biological
- It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. All
- In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from… Commodities
- Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. Aged
- A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy. Broken
- I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. Adjective
- The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. Bed
- At the best of times, spring hurts depressives. Best
- Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. Account
- With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… Act
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