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Marina Warner quotes: When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

Marina Warner quotes: I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

Marina Warner quotes: The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Marina Warner quotes: The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

Marina Warner quotes: Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Marina Warner quotes: I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

Marina Warner quotes: If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

Marina Warner quotes: The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Marina Warner quotes: Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

Marina Warner quotes: a world in a grain of sand | And a heaven in a wild flower'.

a world in a grain of sand | And a heaven in a wild flower'.

Marina Warner quotes: I avoid looking in the mirror.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

Marina Warner quotes: Aarne-Thompson-Uther index

Aarne-Thompson-Uther index

Marina Warner quotes: The forest is where you are when your surroundings are not mastered.

The forest is where you are when your surroundings are not mastered.

Marina Warner quotes: I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.

I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.

Marina Warner quotes: Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.