Quotes by : Angela Carter

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at....

The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire....

The girl burst out laughing she knew she was nobody's meat.

Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart. The....

She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen....

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself....

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your....

Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack....

Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high....