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

Quote by Angela Carter

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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,...

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high...

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high...

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

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....

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of...

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of...

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his...

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his...

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

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

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

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...

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...

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order...

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come...

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come...

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.