Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
Angela CarterOut of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
Angela CarterI should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.
Angela CarterThere 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 CarterHow far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
Angela CarterIconic 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 Carter