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> [Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/over-the-centuries-we-have-transformed-the-ancient-myths-and-folk/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

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> [“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational standards and market conditions that we can no longer distinguish folk tales from fairy tales nor recognize that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/over-the-last-three-centuries-our-historical-reception-of-folk-and/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

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## More by Jack Zipes

> [The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/the-role-of-the-storyteller-is-to-awaken-the-storyteller-in-others/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/over-the-centuries-we-have-transformed-the-ancient-myths-and-folk/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [“It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/it-was-only-as-part-of-the-civilizing-process-that-storytelling/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/what-is-most-disturbing-today-is-that-we-use-rational-methods-to/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions, depending on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/as-the-literary-fairy-tale-spread-in-france-to-every-age-group-and/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [“Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/many-bowdlerized-versions-indicated-a-victorian-minded-censorship/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/alas-for-those-girls-who-ve-refused-the-truth-the-sweetest-tongue-has/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/the-literary-fairy-tale-became-an-acceptable-social-symbolic-form/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [“Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral tradition, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/since-these-wonder-tales-have-been-with-us-for-thousands-of-years-and/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/fairy-tales-since-the-beginning-of-recorded-time-and-perhaps-earlier/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/fairy-tales-begin-with-conflict-because-we-all-begin-our-lives-with/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/it-was-not-once-upon-a-time-but-a-certain-time-in-history-before/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/the-fairy-tale-emanates-from-specific-struggles-to-humanize-bestial/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [“Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends on the manner in which a narrator/author…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/ultimately-the-definition-of-both-the-wonder-tale-and-the-fairy-tale/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

> [If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/if-there-is-one-constant-in-the-structure-and-theme-of-the-wonder/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

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