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Angela Carter has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 of the…
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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 has to…
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here…
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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 to the…
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge…
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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 gives woman…
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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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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
— Angela Carter
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Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many…
— Donna J. Haraway
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It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States…
— Aviva Chomsky
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Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss…
— Mary Ann Glendon
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Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,…
— Neal Stephenson
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All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the…
— Jerry Saltz
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By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism;…
— Donna J. Haraway
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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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