And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.
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 CarterHe is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
Angela CarterHe is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.
Angela Carter