Quotes by Marina Warner

About Marina Warner:

Dame Marina Sarah Warner is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publications over the years, including The London Review of Books, the New Statesman, Sunday Times, The Telegraph and Vogue. She has been a visiting professor, given lectures and taught on the faculties of many universities.
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The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

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The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the o...

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If you remember the pleasure of hearing a story many times, and you will remember that while you were listening you become three people. There is an incredible fusion: you become the storyteller, the protagonist, and you remember yourself listening t...

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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal ...

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

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A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

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

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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.

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I avoid looking in the mirror.

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

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

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One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts ...

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Author Bio

  • NameMarina Warner
  • DescriptionWriter and mythographer
  • BornNovember 9, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; ; Holberg International Memorial Prize