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

- 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

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

- Jack Zipes

Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be d…

- Jack Zipes

What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious,…

- 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