Angela Carter

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

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

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.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.