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  1. Jane Yolen _ Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels,

    WHEN I'M GOOD, I'M VERY GOOD. BUT WHEN I'M BAD, I'M BETTER."-Mae West in I'm No Angel
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  2. Jane Yolen _ The Emerald Circus

    Laughter in the face of certain death? It is the very definition of the Hero," said the White Queen. "The Jabberwock knew it and therefore could no longer move against you.
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  3. Jane Yolen _ The Emerald Circus

    You see, my dear ice witch, I have had the love of from all over the world because of my stories. A child's love is the perfect love, for it is given with a whole heart. That love will outlast me a hundredfold. And it will outlast you as well.
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  4. Jane Yolen _ The Emerald Circus

    Hans was never good at giving proper answers. He always had different answers in his head, odd answers, answers that his teachers and his parents and his grandmother and even his crazy grandfather seemed to think were wrong. But they weren't answers, they were just answers. He wondered suddenly what the Ice Maiden would do if he gave a wrong answer. And, thinking this, he found he couldn't open his mouth at all.
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  5. Jane Yolen _ How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

    War is our backyard, famine our feast. Most fear the wind of our wings and even, in their hurt, pray for life. Only a few, a very few, truly pray for death. But we answer all their prayers with the same coin.
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  6. Jane Yolen _ Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to

    Fiction is like wrestling with angels-you do not expect to win, but you do expect to come away from the experience changed.
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  7. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    How can this be, this great magic, that makes real the unreal, the not-actual into a kind of factless fictual, turns lies into the True? Don't ask me, for I am new at this work, new at telling my own truth. All I can start with is Once Upon A Time, that oldest and truest of lies.
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  8. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    The Baba gives me paper, and a pen that sputters ink. Write, she says, tell the true Though you may have to lie to do it.
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  9. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    She's gone on that long road into adulthood from which none of us returns.
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  10. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    Words shouldn't be dirty or cleanBut definitely sweet,On the tongue, in the mind.
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  11. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    No one sees her of course. She doesn't exist unless you count bad dreams. Yet still she flies,
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  12. Jane Yolen _ Mapping the Bones

    Could it be that humans had an infinite capacity to make themselves at home in the direst of situations? Or did one just adjust expectations downward, so as to be able to get through each day?
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