Angela Carter Quotes
I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.
By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.
It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.
Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.
jThe 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.
Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.
She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.
She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.
From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.