Annelisa

“We start making dolls because it pleases us, we continue to make dolls
because we want to please you.”
― Gayle Wray

“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational standards and market conditions that we can no longer distinguish folk tales from fairy tales nor recognize that the impact of these narratives stems from their imaginative grasp and symbolic depiction of social realities. Folk and fairy tales are generally confused with one another and taken as make-believe stories with no direct reference to a particular community or historical tradition. Their own specific ideology and aesthetics are rarely seen in the light of a diachronic historical development which has great bearing on our cultural self-understanding.”
― Jack Zipes, Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

“Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof that I paid the price.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“Every day affords individual people moments when they can shake off everything that is false and can view things from their perspective.”
― Jack Zipes, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm