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There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him." These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers.

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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.

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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 …

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

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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,…

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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…

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

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

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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.

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