24 Quotations by Angela Carter
- 1. Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more h ...
- 2. Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
- 3. Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including t ...
- 4. Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put t ...
- 5. I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ...
- 6. I think the adjective "post-modernist" really means "mannerist." Books about books is fun but frivol ...
- 7. Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggres ...
- 8. If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink ...
- 9. In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
- 10. It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to ...
- 11. Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
- 12. Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solst ...
- 13. Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults ...
- 14. Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does no ...
- 15. Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your ...
- 16. The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
- 17. The kind of power mothers have is enormous.
- 18. The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universal ...
- 19. The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her a ...
- 20. There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with ...
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