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33 quotes by Angela Carter

Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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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... →

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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

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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... →

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A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

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

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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

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

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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known... →

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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

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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.

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence... →

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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

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