Angela Carter Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

  Angela Carter

  Lovely, Mind, Tragedy

• In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

  Angela Carter

  Order, Miracle, Age

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

• Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

  Angela Carter

  Taken, Cat, Acceptance

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

• As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.

  Angela Carter

  Father, Book, Soul

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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