381 Quotes by Angela Carter

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

The end of exile is the end of being.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.