Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods
ANGELA CARTER Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation
ANGELA CARTER I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align...
ANGELA CARTER There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with ...
ANGELA CARTER The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathet...
ANGELA CARTER Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including t...
ANGELA CARTER The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universal...
ANGELA CARTER Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults...
ANGELA CARTER Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain ...
ANGELA CARTER There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for ...
ANGELA CARTER The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
ANGELA CARTER Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does no...
ANGELA CARTER Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggres...
ANGELA CARTER It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to ...
ANGELA CARTER I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
ANGELA CARTER Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solst...
ANGELA CARTER The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her a...
ANGELA CARTER In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
ANGELA CARTER Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your...
ANGELA CARTER Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
ANGELA CARTER We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there wit...
ANGELA CARTER Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
ANGELA CARTER I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, per...
ANGELA CARTER Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like ...
ANGELA CARTER Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
ANGELA CARTER It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator....
ANGELA CARTER If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
ANGELA CARTER Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks pa...
ANGELA CARTER Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming ...
ANGELA CARTER Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why?
Because, she said.
ANGELA CARTER See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.
ANGELA CARTER We keep the wolves outside by living well.
ANGELA CARTER There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endles...
ANGELA CARTER And, ah! his castle. The faery solitude of the place, with its turrets of mistly blue, its courtyard...
ANGELA CARTER And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.
ANGELA CARTER I don't begrudge you my company, my darling. We must all make do with what rags of love we find flap...
ANGELA CARTER The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like t...
ANGELA CARTER I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, l...
ANGELA CARTER His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on t...
ANGELA CARTER One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.
ANGELA CARTER Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpa...
ANGELA CARTER Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, y...
ANGELA CARTER His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinar...
ANGELA CARTER There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
ANGELA CARTER The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lam...
ANGELA CARTER She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
ANGELA CARTER If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink...
ANGELA CARTER Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his rea...
ANGELA CARTER In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of...
ANGELA CARTER Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more h...
ANGELA CARTER To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a noth...
ANGELA CARTER Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of princi...
ANGELA CARTER Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
ANGELA CARTER Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put t...
ANGELA CARTER The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
ANGELA CARTER The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, patheti...
ANGELA CARTER This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they m...
ANGELA CARTER In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the wor...
ANGELA CARTER I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't pa...
ANGELA CARTER Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack...
ANGELA CARTER She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she...
ANGELA CARTER Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.
ANGELA CARTER The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of fle...
ANGELA CARTER And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the ...
ANGELA CARTER It's useful when a problem comes up that you have no experience of. You then have somebody you can r...
ANGELA CARTER One day I think she will be famous. We are just really proud of her and I wonder what this will lead...
ANGELA CARTER Dinner was awesome. Mr. Rings can cook. And the kids did great serving.
ANGELA CARTER Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there...
ANGELA CARTER What a joy it is to dance and sing!
ANGELA CARTER We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there wit...
ANGELA CARTER The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons an...
ANGELA CARTER Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
ANGELA CARTER There is more to fathering than fucking
ANGELA CARTER They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, wit...
ANGELA CARTER The fin is coming early this siecle.
ANGELA CARTER It creates an unusual situation in which the defendant who did not actually kill anyone can receive ...
ANGELA CARTER She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment...
ANGELA CARTER That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurs...
ANGELA CARTER At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.
ANGELA CARTER He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who ca...
ANGELA CARTER ordered me a sky from a florist
ANGELA CARTER To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.
To exist in the passive case i...
ANGELA CARTER There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in differe...
ANGELA CARTER Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuento de hadas en los libros es otra ve...
ANGELA CARTER The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat.
ANGELA CARTER For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written —...
ANGELA CARTER I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their...
ANGELA CARTER When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
ANGELA MERKEL Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.
ANGELA MERKEL I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's a...
ANGELA DAVIS What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVIS Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you h...
ANGELA ROBINSON The luxury customer is increasingly global and increasingly mobile. Their brand journey is not linea...
ANGELA AHRENDTS I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
ANGELA BRALY As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
ANGELA KINSEY You have to create a consistent brand experience however and wherever a customer touches your brand,...
ANGELA AHRENDTS The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement tha...
ANGELA DAVIS Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
ANGELA DAVIS To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the...
ANGELA DAVIS Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a ...
ANGELA DAVIS We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
ANGELA DAVIS I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved activel...
ANGELA DAVIS When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I did...
ANGELA DAVIS Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits...
ANGELA DAVIS I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our ident...
ANGELA MERKEL After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorp...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the in...
ANGELA MERKEL Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emot...
ANGELA AHRENDTS I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De N...
ANGELA BASSETT If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
ANGELA THIRKELL While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -A...
ANGELA SCHWINDT I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick ...
ANGELA LANSBURY Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
ANGELA LAMBERT Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
ANGELA MONET Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by...
ANGELA DAVIS Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Beli...
ANGELA AHRENDTS As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participatio...
ANGELA DAVIS I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear val...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abo...
ANGELA DAVIS My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and be...
ANGELA DAVIS Spying among friends is never acceptable.
ANGELA MERKEL I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridic...
ANGELA LANSBURY The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement tha...
ANGELA DAVIS I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to...
ANGELA DAVIS I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved activel...
ANGELA DAVIS Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery ...
ANGELA DAVIS We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era...
ANGELA MERKEL I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can ...
ANGELA AHRENDTS It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.
ANGELA AHRENDTS I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's liv...
ANGELA AHRENDTS I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would b...
ANGELA MERKEL I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballe...
ANGELA MERKEL Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institu...
ANGELA DAVIS I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux...
ANGELA BOWIE It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard...
ANGELA RUGGIERO When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll...
ANGELA BASSETT That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer,...
ANGELA RUGGIERO Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
ANGELA WATSON I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital w...
ANGELA AHRENDTS Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it'...
ANGELA DAVIS Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your emp...
ANGELA AHRENDTS Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal ...
ANGELA MCGLOWAN I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clea...
ANGELA MERKEL People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a ch...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in th...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a s...
ANGELA MERKEL This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from Am...
ANGELA BASSETT Sometimes with the initial shock, you have to have some down time as far as crying, grieving and som...
ANGELA BRIDGES If a student comes in my office and doesn't want to talk me, they just might want to sit still, be a...
ANGELA BRIDGES Grieving is a process. There's a process of the shock, the anger, and then coping with the situation...
ANGELA BRIDGES First of all, students have to actually grieve to get over it. They cannot just ignore the situation...
ANGELA BRIDGES She was shot outside of a home.
ANGELA BOZORTH They found Naber hiding behind a bedroom door.
ANGELA BOZORTH He threatened the front cashier with a knife. No drugs were taken, just the money.
ANGELA BOZORTH They didn't know each other. The victims just happened to stop for gas . . . whether it was a mean l...
ANGELA BOZORTH This particular individual is looking for gumball candy and candy machines.
ANGELA BOZORTH We're trying to pursue all our leads. It's anybody's guess what his motive is.
ANGELA BOZORTH He left and then returned. She opened the door and stabbed him in the chest.
ANGELA BOZORTH It was a domestic violence situation.
ANGELA BOZORTH Neighbors said they had seen the box for a couple of days.
ANGELA BOZORTH We called him and he didn't seem to be shocked about the box and said it was a prank.
ANGELA BOZORTH What we're trying to do is have all of the mass and volume be used for the purpose it is to be used ...
ANGELA BELCHER Now it's simply a matter of designing the other components, and we'll be able to form batteries by s...
ANGELA BELCHER This could only be done through self-assembly.
ANGELA BELCHER It could be something like Scotch Tape, where you just roll it out and stick in on the back of your ...
ANGELA BELCHER I would straggle the line between being the bright and smart kid and trying to be cool in the lunch ...
ANGELA BASSETT I would straggle the line between being the bright and smart kid and trying to be cool in the lunch ...
ANGELA BASSETT That play and those performances had a huge impact. It just changed the whole trajectory of my life....
ANGELA BASSETT We don't take it lightly. It impacts us.
ANGELA BASSETT And what we do is sacred.
ANGELA BASSETT I think we both have a genuine respect and love for what we do. Theater is sacred.
ANGELA BASSETT If you have a big voice, so be it. But if you do things quietly, so be it. It can be done. I think i...
ANGELA BASSETT I'm just so blessed to be able to do what I just love and have loved since I was a teenager, since I...
ANGELA BASSETT I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De N...
ANGELA BASSETT I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I...
ANGELA BASSETT I'd love to see a place where people could get together with their animals and meet other people.
ANGELA ALLEN My impression so far is there's not a lot of foot traffic going by.
ANGELA ALLEN Despite the cold weather, more than 2,000 concerned New Yorkers are taking part in HOPE 2006 and wil...
ANGELA ALLEN He was very popular. He got along with everybody.
ANGELA ALLEN Homelessness among seniors is a tragedy we never want to see happen. Fortunately, the city does not ...
ANGELA ALLEN Regardless of how this 'report' ranks New York, our city is the most generous jurisdiction in the co...
ANGELA ALLEN It's not like it's (the violence) all gone if there is not a public announcement.
ANGELA AGGELER The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Mi...
ANGELA AGGELER That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly diffe...
ANGELA AGGELER We see it as a trusted traveler program.
ANGELA AGGELER This is awful. Those poor girls. You shouldn't have to get your story in the paper to get it fixed.
ANGELA AGGELER He always hated that hed never be able to donate blood for someone else,
ANGELA ADAMS Not only is that a money issue, it's a space issue. We may have to buy another (mobile classroom).
ANGELA ADAMS It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we just meet...
ANGELA ADAMS Since starting this business, I have always wanted to design bed and bath products. The talent and e...
ANGELA ADAMS He always hated that he’d never be able to donate blood for someone...
ANGELA ADAMS We're trying to keep all costs down.
ANGELA ADAMS We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues.
ANGELA ADAMS During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression...
ANGELA MERKEL Skirts are quite short, but straight. Lots of dresses and it's very energetic, I must say, and it's ...
ANGELA MISSONI [Color, always an attraction in any Missoni collection, is here in abundance -- but more subdued.] A...
ANGELA MISSONI We've introduced like cool wool, and of course, we tried already to do some jacquards, but we are, l...
ANGELA MISSONI