Angela Carter
Angela Carter
Angela Olive Carter-Pearcewho published as Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 May 1940
heart years adjectives
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
ends exile
The end of exile is the end of being.
parent anxiety soul
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
kissing blood degrees
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.
sexy women twilight
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
relationship women schemas
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
eye men blood
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.
needs brushes about-yourself
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
forests monsters looks
Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?
clever female tricks
The 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.
life unique emotional
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.
revenge thinking language
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
life art mean
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
mother war magic-realism
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.