Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

Angela Carter's Popular Quotes

And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement,…

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history …

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

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She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very f…

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In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

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How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

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There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

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I desire therefore I exist.

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