Bad guy Quote by Chris Weitz

You know how people say stepmothers are wicked? Well maybe, it's not the mother who is wicked, maybe, it's the child.

— Farahliyana Ray

The role of the stepmother is the most difficult of all, because you can't ever just be. You're constantly being tested, by the children,…

— Anonymous

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in…

— Desiderius Erasmus

We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero…

— David Richo

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in…

— Murasaki Shikibu

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

— Euripides

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

— Elizabeth Gaskell

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

— Robert Paul Weston

The word 'family' has always posed great difficulties. Until recently, high death rates for women in labour meant many stepmothers and, according to folklore,…

— Michael Rosen

I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be…

— Mark Ronson

I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a lot of…

— Lore Segal