Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Angela Carter quote 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.
Angela Carter quote Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Angela Carter quote Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
Angela Carter quote 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.
Angela Carter quote The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Angela Carter quote Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods
Angela Carter quote It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
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