Angela Carter Quotes

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Angela Carter

Profession : Novelist

Birth : May 7, 1940

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

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

Angela Carter

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

Angela Carter

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Angela Carter

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.

Angela Carter

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

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

Angela Carter

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

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

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Angela Carter

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

Angela Carter

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

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

Angela Carter