381 Quotes by Angela Carter

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.

And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.