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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.

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