Quotes by : Jack D. Zipes

The very name of the genre itself - fairy tale - originated during this time, for the French writers....

Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends....

Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is....

As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve....

Rarely do wonder tales end unhappily. They triumph over death. The tale begins with "Once upon a time"....

The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized....

It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain....

Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the....

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer....

The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs,....