381 Quotes by Angela Carter

...is it not to the mercies of the eyes of others that we commit ourselves on our journey through the world?

[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.

...she found it made things easier if she dramatised them. Or melodramatised them. It was easier, for example, to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film, possibly played by Orson Welles.

...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.

He knew it was too late to turn back and brusquely reminded himself he was no child, now, to be frightened of his own fancies.

I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.

jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.