Quote #5

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

More from Angela Carter

  1. Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitche…
  2. A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
  3. Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have neve…
  4. Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

All Angela Carter quotes