Angela Carter Father Quotations

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

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.