26 Quotes by Angela Carter
Angela Carter is an English writer and journalist who is famous for her feminist and magical realism works, which often explore gender roles, sexuality, and societal norms. Her novels, short stories, and essays have received critical acclaim for their vivid and imaginative prose and incisive social commentary. Some of her most well-known works include "The Bloody Chamber," "Nights at the Circus," and "The Sadeian Woman." Carter's influence on modern literature, particularly feminist literature, cannot be overstated. (Bio)
Angela Carter Quotes
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. (Meaning)
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. (Meaning)
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
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.
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.
Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.
There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.
His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.
A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.
Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.
― Angela Carter Quotes
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