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Angela Carter
8 quotes
“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.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Kitchen Child (1976).
“Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bridled Sweeties (1977).
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wise Children (1991), ch. 5 (p. 213).
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).
“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1998).
“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.
“I'm interested in the division that Judeo-Christianity has made between human nature and animal nature. None of the other great faiths in the world have got quite that division between us and them. None of the others has made this enormous division between birds and beasts who, as Darwin said, would have developed consciences if they'd had the chance, and us. I think it's one of the scars in Western Europe. 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.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Marxism Today (January 1985).