Angela Carter Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Angela Carter quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on May 7, 1940). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 33 we have for her.
“It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.”
“You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.”
“It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.”
“What a joy it is to dance and sing!”
“I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.”
“In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.”
“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”
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