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

— Angela Carter Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

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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.

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)

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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