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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“Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“We used chamber-pots a good deal.... My mother ... loved to repeat: ‘When did the queen reign over China?’ This whimsical and harmless scatological pun was my first introduction to the wonderful world of verbal transformations, and also a first perception that a joke need not be funny to give pleasure.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“‘It’s every woman’s tragedy,’ said Nora,... ‘that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator.’ Mind you, we’ve known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)