Neil Gaiman on the meaning of fairy tales

Thu, 25 Dec 2014 03:52:06 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11243761/Neil-Gaiman-Disneys-Sleeping-Beauty.html>

'"You don't need princes to save you," says Neil Gaiman, speaking about
his new fairy tale, The Sleeper and the Spindle. "I don't have a lot of
patience for stories in which women are rescued by men." And so, in his
slim, gilded, wicked book, a beautiful young queen calls off her own
wedding and sets out to save a neighbouring kingdom from its plague of
sleep.'

Great article on fairy tales.  Via Christopher Lamke and Paula Rizzuto.

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