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A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.Angela Carter
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Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.Angela Carter
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The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.Angela Carter
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To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case — that is, to be killed. This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman.Angela Carter