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Climbing into the old woman’s gilded carriage here is very similar to entering the gilded cage; it supposedly offers something more comfortable, less stressful, but in effect it captures instead.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana,
J. M. Barrie • Peter Pan
‘But the wedding will be fun. Bears always dance well.’
PHILIP PULLMAN • Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
He decided that she should write stories and books and in 1925, as an encouragement, he took one of her plays for children, The Knave of Hearts, and had Scribners publish it in a large-format volume with lavish illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, a friend of the Perkinses who lived across the Connecticut River from Windsor. Parrish collectors consid
... See moreA. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
One of my favorite stories is about an old woman and her husband—a man mean as Mondays, who scared her with the violence of his temper and the shifting nature of his whims.