Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

- Marina Warner

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

- Marina Warner

I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to …

- Marina Warner

The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish.…

- Marina Warner

There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories ar…

- Marina Warner

I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or trialogue, or polylogue: many, many,…

- Marina Warner

The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of …

- Marina Warner

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

- Marina Warner

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

- Marina Warner