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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
— Angela Carter
Tags: father, woman, mother, life

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
— Angela Carter
Tags: clever, human, experience, confidence
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 never known them.
— Angela Carter
Tags: like, dad, never, father
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
— Angela Carter
Tags: old, nostalgia, movies, memories
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
— Angela Carter
Tags: men, woman, man, women
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
— Angela Carter
Tags: hollywood, where, dream, place
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