Terri Windling Quotes About Fairy Tales

• Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

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  Children, Heart, Reality

• Hubo un tiempo en que los cuentos de hadas se contaban por igual a grandes y pequeños. No ha sido hasta el siglo pasado cuando estos cuentos se han considerado sólo aptos para niños pequeños, despojados de gran parte de su complejidad original, su sensualidad y su poder para asustar y deleitar.

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  Children, Once Upon A Time, Delight

• Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.

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  Children, Thinking, Ideas

• El viaje de los cuentos de hadas puede parecer un viaje hacia el exterior a través de llanuras y montañas, castillos y bosques, pero el movimiento real es hacia el interior, hacia las tierras del alma.

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  Journey, Land, Soul

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