Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

- Jack Zipes

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

- Jack Zipes

Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in wit…

- Jack Zipes

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, a…

- Jack Zipes

Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror re…

- Jack Zipes

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

- Jack Zipes

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we …

- Jack Zipes

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

- Jack Zipes

The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete …

- Jack Zipes