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Angela Carter was an English novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She is recognized for her imaginative and surreal narratives, frequently incorporating elements of fantasy, folklore, and Gothic literature. Carter's writing is celebrated for its intricate prose and exploration of themes like gender, class, and identity.

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“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.”

Needs Knowledge About Yourself Brushes Carpet

Author:Angela Carter

“He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.”

Thinking Language Projects Ultimate Revenge English Language Pondering

Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“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.”

World War Mother Literature Magic Talent Doctors War Of The Worlds Realism Second World War Magic Realism

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

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

Kind Stories Kings Tales Cups Fairy Sugar Fairy Tale

Author:Angela Carter

“A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.”

Facts Mother Father

Author:Angela Carter

“It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.”

Passion Literature Objects

Author:Angela Carter

“In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force”

World Force Taken Sells Refuse Commodity

Book:The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

Source: The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

“Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.”

Vices Nostalgia

Author:Angela Carter

“A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.”

Heart Broken Tragedy Untimely Death

Book:Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

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

Thinking Mean Book Fun Posts Really Mean Modernity Modernism Adjectives Frivolous Post Modernism

Author:Angela Carter

“The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.”

Sleep Bed Tables Dinner Formal Confrontation Dinner Table

Author:Angela Carter

About the Author

Born: May 7, 1940
Died: February 16, 1992
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 211

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