Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales Quotes

“The dead know something we don’t, although they keep it to themselves.”
― Angela Carter, Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

“Swahili storytellers believe that women are incorrigibly wicked, diabolically cunning and sexually insatiable; I hope this is true, for the sake of the women.”
― Angela Carter, Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

“But one story in this book, 'How a Husband Weaned His Wife from Fairy Tales', shows just how much fairy stories could change a woman's desires, and how much a man might fear that change, would go to any lenghts to keep her from pleasure, as if pleasure itself threatened his authority.
Which, of course, it did.
It still does.”
― Angela Carter, Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

“ESCAPING SLOWLY”
― Angela Carter, Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

“Old wives' tales — that is, worthless stories, untruths, trivial gossip, a derisive label that allots the art of storytelling to women at the exact same time as it takes all value from it.”
― Angela Carter, Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

“Stories are portable, part of the invisible luggage people take with them when they leave home.”
― Angela Carter, Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

“Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuento de hadas en los libros es otra versión del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicación a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde.”
― Angela Carter, Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales