There was no way I could understand our defeat. I had to grieve over our loss before I could look to the future. Where could our lives possibly be as meaningful as they might have been in the White House?


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ANGELA CARTER
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
JIMMY 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
Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a relea...
JIMMY 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
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and som...
JIMMY CARTER
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different y...
JIMMY 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
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
ELIZABETH CARTER
Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solst...
ANGELA CARTER
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
CARTER GLASS
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
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any ...
STEPHEN 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
This nation has dehumanized its adversaries calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.
JIMMY CARTER
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I wil...
JIMMY CARTER
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...
JIMMY CARTER
Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.
BRIAN CARTER
I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any pr...
BRIAN CARTER
Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, y...
BRIAN CARTER
I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those...
CARTER HEYWARD
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
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family tic...
LILLIAN CARTER
If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.
ALLY CARTER
And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who ...
ALLY CARTER
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
ANGELA CARTER
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, le...
HODDING CARTER
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
LILLIAN CARTER
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air po...
MAJORA CARTER
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
JIMMY CARTER