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The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

Book by Angela Carter · 4 quotes · Atrocities, Autonomy, Blood

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“Because she is the channel of life, woman as mythic mother lives at one remove from life. A woman who defines herself through her fertility has no other option. So a woman who feels she has been deprived of motherhood is trebly deprived—of children; of the value of herself as mother; and of her own self, as autonomous being.”