Jack D. Zipes

Quotes

• “Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they ga...”
• “The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and...”
• “It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, i...”
• “Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and someh...”
• “The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds...”
• “Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is a dark power, a m...”
• “Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mank...”