Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.
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
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
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
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 …
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. - Marina Warner
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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
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…
The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish.… - Marina Warner
The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish.…
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
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,…
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
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 …
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is. - Marina Warner
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
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
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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