Angela Carter: Man

Angela Carter was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”

Angela Carter

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).

Sex

“Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”

Angela Carter book Nights at the Circus

Source: Nights at the Circus

Marriage

“It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.”

Angela Carter
Life

“Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”

Angela Carter

Source: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

Wolf

“He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.”

Angela Carter book Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

Love , Way , Forgiveness

“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”

Angela Carter

Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.