“ In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force Angela Carter
“ Bu tatlı seste sanki tekinsiz olan bir şey varmış, ya bu sesin sahibi büyücüymüş ya da bir büyünün etkisindeymiş gibi geldi odadakilere. Üçü de tüylerinin diken diken olduğunu hissettiler. [sf 184] Angela Carter
“ Sorridi in pubblico, piangi in pubblico, vivi in pubblico, crepa in pubblico. C'era, sui loro visi, un'emozione schietta, atipica per gli attori. Stasera erano al telegiornale. E' la cosa peggiore ved… Angela Carter
“ Justine is a good woman in a man's world. She is a good woman according to the rules for women laid down by men and her reward is rape, humiliation and incessant beatings. Her life is that of a woman… Angela Carter
“ You must not think my father valued me at less than a king's ransom; but, at no more than a king's ransom. Angela Carter
“ She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen and she hit me.Though, he recalled, not sufficiently brutally to require that he tie her wrists… Angela Carter
“ [...] certo, una madre è sempre una madre, perché è un fatto biologico, mentre un padre è una festa mobile. Angela Carter
“ MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping… Angela Carter
“ Because she is the channel of life, woman as mythic mother lives at one remove from life. A woman who defines herself through her fertility has no other option. So a woman who feels she has been depri… Angela Carter
“ All cats have a Spanish tinge although Puss himself elegantly lubricates his virile, muscular, native Bergamasque with French, since that is the only language in which you can purr. Angela Carter
“ If I could see not one single soul in that wilderness of desolation all around me, then the six of us - mounts and riders, both - could boast amongst us not one soul, either, since all the best religi… Angela Carter
“ Sade's work, with its compulsive attraction for the delinquent imagination of the romantics, has been instrumental in shaping aspects of the modern sensibility; its paranoia, its despair, its sexual t… Angela Carter
“ There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock. Angela Carter
“ Buzz crouched between her feet and scrutinised as much as he could see of her perilous interior to find out if all was in order and there were no concealed fangs or guillotines inside her to ruin him. Angela Carter
“ These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye... Angela Carter
“ Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors, each one of whom, th… Angela Carter
“ Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality. Angela Carter
“ In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. Angela Carter
“ They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on. Angela Carter
