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Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle. (Angela Carter)
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. View quote
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I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one. View quote
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. View quote
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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. View quote
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One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. View quote
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Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you. View quote
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You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself. View quote
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They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl... an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering. View quote
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Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it. View quote
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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? (Angela Carter)
That 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. View quote
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My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day. View quote
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I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps. View quote
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It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. View quote
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It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. View quote
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A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. View quote
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In 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. View quote
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If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. View quote
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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist? View quote
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A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar. (Angela Carter)
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question 'Where was I before I was born.' In the beginning was ... what Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. View quote
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it. View quote
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Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. View quote
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Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common. View quote
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