Angela Carter Quotes

1940–1992 England

Angela Carter (May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist and science fiction works.

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Also known as: Carter, Angela

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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Wise Children (1991)

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

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

The Bridled Sweeties (1977)

My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

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 them.

Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1998)

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.

Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.

The Kitchen Child (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Angela Carter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.