Community Quote by 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.

— Jack Zipes

“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing could be…

— Jack Zipes

Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I…

— Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

— Jane Levy

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

— James Lapine

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are more than true, not because the evil people exist, but because they can never win.

— Anonymous

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are…

— Kate Forsyth

Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in addition, cruelty.…

— Sigmund Freud

Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to,…

— Joss Whedon

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I…

— Jane Yolen