Top 33 Quotes by Angela Carter

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

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

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 trick.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.