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Wayward Girls and Wicked Women QUOTES

Wayward Girls and Wicked Women QUOTES

1 " She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves. "

― Angela Carter , Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

2 " He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language. "

― Angela Carter , Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

3 " Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet? "

― Angela Carter , Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

4 " The fact is, that having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her at all different: there was something so complete, so completely unlike every one else, in her personality, that she seemed always to have been present in one’s consciousness, although present, perhaps, as an enigma. "

― Angela Carter , Wayward Girls and Wicked Women