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Angela Carter

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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?


— Angela Carter


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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.


— Angela Carter


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


— Angela Carter


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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 avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.


— Angela Carter


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


— Angela Carter


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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.


— Angela Carter


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In 1977 Carter married Mark Pearce with whom Angela Carter had one son. She was actively involved in both film adaptations her screenplays are publiAngela Carterd in the collected dramatic writings The Curious Room together with her radio scripts a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. Works as author


Works on Angela Carter

Milne Andrew (2006) The Bloody Chamber d'Angela Carter Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université
Milne Andrew (2007) Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A Reader's Guide Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université
Dimovitz Scott A.

Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist known for her feminist magical realism and picaresque works. In 2008 The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

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