Adult life Quote by Jill Paton Walsh

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if…

— Stephen King

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

— Charlotte Mason

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous…

— Anthony Esolen

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

“It is through hearing about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings… that children learn or mislearn what a child and what a…

— Michael Ward

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

Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route to…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are, with the…

— Darko Suvin

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

— Kate Forsyth