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.
Angela CarterIn 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
Angela CarterThat is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
Angela CarterThough I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, theyโre only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isnโt it? Everything else is artful.
Angela Carter