A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
in Angela Carter QuotesPornographers 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.
in Angela Carter QuotesIn the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
in Angela Carter QuotesWomen's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
in Angela Carter QuotesMidnight, 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.
in Angela Carter QuotesI see this every day. If it's not a hand-out, if it's not free, if it requires a little work, they don't care for it.
in Angela Carter QuotesThe whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
in Angela Carter QuotesThis dance was the dance of death. (The clowns) danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.
in Angela Carter QuotesI haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
in Angela Carter QuotesI think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
in Angela Carter QuotesIt 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.
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