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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 world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| 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 trick. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| 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 avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
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| 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. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| 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 slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
