I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory.… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
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The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Say you're sorry That face of an angel Comes out just when you need it to As I paced back and forth… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Waking up from a good dream to face the harsh morning daylight may not seem like a reason to celebrate. But trust… — Good Housekeeping Copy Share Image
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This is for girls..-stop waiting for that 'perfect' guy.he's not out there.there is no such things as fairy tales.if you push that… — Trueman Copy Share Image
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“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human. The princes and princesses fall… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
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Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
“...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in Grimm or Disney,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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“Some people owe everything they have to the bank accounts of their parents. I owe the state. Put simply, the state educated… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
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A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
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![“[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt…” quote by Alice Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/09c/alice-hoffman-427_age_fairy-tales-are-like-a-journey-to-the-wo_1682556.jpg)
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