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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation - Angela Carter Quotes

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation

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 Quotes

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.

English Novelist

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods - Angela Carter Quotes

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

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 Quotes

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.

English Novelist

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 Quotes

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.

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 Quotes

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.

Birthday Christmas

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 Quotes

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.

English Novelist

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 Quotes

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.

English Novelist Life

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common. - Angela Carter Quotes

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

Feminism Sisters

They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on. - Angela Carter Quotes

They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. - Angela Carter Quotes

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

The 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. - Angela Carter Quotes

The 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.

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 of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art. - Angela Carter Quotes

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 of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Art Arts And Artists

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 Quotes

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.

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 cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. - Angela Carter Quotes

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 cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Bed

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born'.' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. - Angela Carter Quotes

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born'.' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. - Angela Carter Quotes

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Capitalism Dress

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. - Angela Carter Quotes

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent. - Angela Carter Quotes

Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. - Angela Carter Quotes

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy English Novelist

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. - Angela Carter Quotes

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

English Novelist Man

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. - Angela Carter Quotes

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Bed English Novelist

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. - Angela Carter Quotes

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

English Novelist Pornography

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 Quotes

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.

Confidence English Novelist

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. - Angela Carter Quotes

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

English Novelist Hollywood

The fin is coming early this siecle. - Angela Carter Quotes

The fin is coming early this siecle.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. - Angela Carter Quotes

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Arts And Artists Necessity

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps. - Angela Carter Quotes

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.

What a joy it is to dance and sing! - Angela Carter Quotes

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

English Novelist Joy

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous. - Angela Carter Quotes

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

Books And Reading Modern And Modernism

I 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. - Angela Carter Quotes

I 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.

It's useful when a problem comes up that you have no experience of. You then have somebody you can refer to, ... The workplace would be a far nicer place if people said 'thank you' a bit more often. - Angela Carter Quotes

It's useful when a problem comes up that you have no experience of. You then have somebody you can refer to, ... The workplace would be a far nicer place if people said 'thank you' a bit more often.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world. - Angela Carter Quotes

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

English Novelist Learning

One day I think she will be famous. We are just really proud of her and I wonder what this will lead to. I wonder what her future will be. - Angela Carter Quotes

One day I think she will be famous. We are just really proud of her and I wonder what this will lead to. I wonder what her future will be.

Dinner was awesome. Mr. Rings can cook. And the kids did great serving. - Angela Carter Quotes

Dinner was awesome. Mr. Rings can cook. And the kids did great serving.

Kids

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with. - Angela Carter Quotes

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

Acting And Actors Night

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. - Angela Carter Quotes

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Arts And Artists Past

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe. - Angela Carter Quotes

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

English Novelist

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 in unison. - Angela Carter Quotes

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 in unison.

English Novelist

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born.'' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. - Angela Carter Quotes

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born.'' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. - Angela Carter Quotes

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

English Novelist

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 Quotes

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.

This dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness. - Angela Carter Quotes

This dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.

English Novelist

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 cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. - Angela Carter Quotes

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 cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Sex

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. - Angela Carter Quotes

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

English Novelist

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