Jack Zipes Quotes
- The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
- 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…
- 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…
- Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
- Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.
- Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit…
- Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense…
- If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.