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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Darkness, Swallowing, Stories

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• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Children, Dragons

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• True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn't break any spells? Maybe it would be easy - like holding his hand or having his arms around me. Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't fell like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Betrayal, Nice, Princess

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• We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

  Terry McMillan

  Heart, Divorce, Suffering

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.164, Penguin

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• Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Fashion, Teacher, Hate

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• With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Dark, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1188, Simon and Schuster

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• I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty) "Books are not the same as reality," Devlin stared at her. "My world is not always kind to mortals.

  Melissa Marr

  Uncles, Book, Reality

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• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.

  Ron Franscell

  Dream, Bullying, Insecurity

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• He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Russia, Work Out

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• It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Mean, Boys

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.208, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

  Rumi

  Men, Tales, Idle

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• I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us. But nowadays we can think that this magic has been killed and I am try to make it survive as long as possible.

  Klaus Nomi

  Nice, Book, Thinking

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• That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

  Gena Showalter

  Character, Mean, And Love

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure”, p.272, Harlequin

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• Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I think there's something cathartic about having kids live through their fears through a book or any kind of story.

  Jane Levy

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what happens after the fairy tale wedding. And this thought coincided or coalesced when I was at a wedding of a friend who got married to somebody that literally everybody in the congregation thought that you definitely should not get married to. This was the worst idea either of you have ever had.

  Dan Mazer

  Ideas, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

  Warren Buffett

  Naked, Acquisition, Foolish

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• The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.

  Daniel Dennett

  Taken, Reality, Land

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

  Meredith Brooks

  Wind, Gone, Wizards

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• It sounds cheesy but I think my life's kinda like a fairy tale. I worked really hard, but I'm very, very lucky too. I'm just 16 and I've done so many amazing things. I travel the world, I have fans who support me, and I get to do what I love - make movies, sing and really be myself. I have a beautiful family, a great support system, and wonderful friends - and I go shopping every week! I'm so lucky, but it's not necessarily like "A Cinderella Story."

  Hilary Duff

  Beautiful, Thinking, Shopping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.

  Ron Carlson

  College, Taught Us, Frogs

  Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.47, Harvest House Publishers

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• 'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, Fiction

  "Mark Hamill on getting "That Obi-wan Mojo Going": New-Gen Panel at NYCC" by Laurel Woods, www.mtv.com. October 18, 2011.

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• So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Example, Different

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• It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

  Kit Williams

  Dog, Moon, Rabbits

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• A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

  Angela Carter

  Kings, Stories, Sugar

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