Quotes by : Marina Warner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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