Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.
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 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,…
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 vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. - Marina Warner
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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.
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. - Marina Warner
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.
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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