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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“It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“It was as lovely a summer as those that precede wars.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“For one moment, just one moment, Fevvers suffered the worst crisis of her life: ‘Am I fact? Or am I fiction? Am I what I know I am? Or am I what he thinks I am?’”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“We watched her jug a hare, once, on television, years ago.... The hare had been half rotted, then cremated, then consumed. If there is a god and she is of the rabbit family, then Saskia will be in deep doo- doo on Judgment Day.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)