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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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