“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing could be further from the truth. From the very beginning, thousands of years ago, when tales were told… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites.… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions, depending on the writer's interests. It represented the glory and ideology of the French aristocracy. It provided a symbolic critique, with utopian connotations, of the aristocratic hierarchy, largely within the aristocracy itself and from the female viewpoint. It… — Jack Zipes Copy Share
“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… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral tradition, it… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
