It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

Quote by Angela Carter

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct...

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct...

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of...

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of...

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is...

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so...

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second...

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second...

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a...

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a...

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis,...

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis,...

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman...

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman...

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything...

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything...

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany...

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany...

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with...

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with...

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is...

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is...

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing...

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing...

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside...

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside...

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately...

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately...

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion...

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion...

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator....

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator....