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Angela Carter Quotes: jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
         

jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.


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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.



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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.



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If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.





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