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1. "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
2. "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 done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies." ~ Jack Zipes
3. "If there is one ‘constant' in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation." ~ Jack Zipes
4. "Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth." ~ Jack Zipes
5. "The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors." ~ Jack Zipes
6. "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 with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts." ~ Jack Zipes
7. "Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live in the woods with the wolf." ~ Jack Zipes

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