As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.
Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.
My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
Fairy-tales are nice.
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Austria. Across the street from our house was an ancient castle on a cliff. So when I first heard fairy tales, I felt as if the magic of 'Cinderella' or 'Sleeping Beauty' was taking place right in my own neighborhood.
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