Best 7 quotes of Maria Tatar on MyQuotes

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.

Acts committed in the heat of passion as much as acts of heartfelt compassion have the power to disenchant

At that, the old hag flew into such a rage she burst into pieces on the spot, and the princess with the long nose did the same right after her, and the whole pack of trolls right after that. At least I haven't heard a word about them since.