In music, on stage and on screen, fairy tales have always been guaranteed moneymakers. It's no wonder then, that in these difficult economic times, there are fairy tales everywhere you turn. From 'Once Upon a Time' and 'Grimm,' to 'Mirror, Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman.'
Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal.
I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.
