Marina Warner Quotes

A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not...

Theories about world literature, of which fairy tale is a fundamental part, emphasize the porousness...

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interp...

If you remember the pleasure of hearing a story many times, and you will remember that while you wer...

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes...

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out ...

Stories were migrants, blow-ins, border-crossers, tunnellers from France and Italy and more distant ...

The Other Worlds which fairy tales explore open a way for writers and storytellers to speak in Other...

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testi...