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> [It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.](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/)

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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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