I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae WestTags: virginity decadence fairy-tales innuendo purity risque snow-white
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Albert EinsteinTags: attributed-no-source children fairy-tales
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Neil GaimanTags: inspirational books dragons fairy-tales paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian AndersenTags: fairy-tales
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
Alfred HitchcockTags: fear childhood fairy-tales wolves
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.
Jack D. ZipesTags: fairy-tales
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."
(Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)
Tags: fairy-tales utilitarianism
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
Charles LambTags: fairy-tales
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert EinsteinTags: fairy-tales
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
W.H. AudenTags: fairy-tales
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