Maria Tatar Quotes

#1. I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.

Kate Bernheimer

#2. Ric Flair, the stratosphere is reserved for you and me.

Dusty Rhodes

#3. It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

Rokia Traore

#5. We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values

Fela Durotoye

#6. Third-class passengers are treated like sheep and their comforts are sheep's comforts.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Maria Tatar

#8. Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

Maria Tatar

#9. 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 the culture of childhood ... they capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience

Maria Tatar

#10. 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.

Maria Tatar

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

Maria Tatar

#12. Live counterculturally when the culture, baptized or secular, does not affirm truth, love, faith, mercy, and justice.

Sarah Bessey

#13. Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

Carl Jung

#14. If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

Amy Winehouse

#15. Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.

Regina Brett

#16. Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Maria Tatar