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Book: Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
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  1. Angela Carter _ Angela Carter's Book of Fairy

    Old wives' tales - that is, worthless stories, untruths, trivial gossip, a derisive label that allots the art of storytelling to women at the exact same time as it takes all value from it.
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  2. Angela Carter _ Angela Carter's Book of Fairy

    The dead know something we don't, although they keep it to themselves.
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  3. Angela Carter _ Angela Carter's Book of Fairy

    Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuento de hadas en los libros es otra versión del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicación a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde.
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  4. Angela Carter _ Angela Carter's Book of Fairy

    But one story in this book, 'How a Husband Weaned His Wife from Fairy Tales', shows just how much fairy stories could change a woman's desires, and how much a man might fear that change, would go to any lenghts to keep her from pleasure, as if pleasure itself threatened his authority.Which, of course, it did.It still does.
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  5. Angela Carter _ Angela Carter's Book of Fairy

    Swahili storytellers believe that women are incorrigibly wicked, diabolically cunning and sexually insatiable; I hope this is true, for the sake of the women.
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