Kate Bernheimer quote: "I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird."

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in...
KATE BERNHEIMER

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, someth...
KATE BERNHEIMER

As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjec...
KATE BERNHEIMER

It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on wri...
KATE BERNHEIMER

I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translati...
KATE BERNHEIMER

I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, sm...
KATE BERNHEIMER

With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time ...
KATE BERNHEIMER

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much chan...
KATE BERNHEIMER

Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too...
KATE BERNHEIMER

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, ...
KATE BERNHEIMER

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a bo...
KATE BERNHEIMER

There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of strugg...
KATE BERNHEIMER

As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we no...
KATE BERNHEIMER

Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
KATE BERNHEIMER

When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a ...
KATE BERNHEIMER

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my n...
KATE BERNHEIMER

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward...
KATE BERNHEIMER

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam w...
KATE BERNHEIMER

Thankfully, the farmers understand my request that the children not be allowed to peer through the w...
KATE BERNHEIMER

Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hu...
KATE BERNHEIMER

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a...
KATE BERNHEIMER

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a doma...
CHARLES BERNHEIMER

Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent o...
CHARLES BERNHEIMER

Confusion is a continuous fight with self-knowledge, prejudice and insecurity.
KATE

I have an insane calling to be where i'm not, and a screaming urge to get out of here. There's no ro...
KATE

That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b...
KATE

If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual...
KATE

Amazing how you can fake you're way through the day, by looking at the clock, and work untill it's t...
KATE

The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together!
KATE

More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song. It shouldn't be this hard, and it s...
KATE

Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting.
KATE

Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive... But the thou...
KATE

Why do people get back in the box ?, when deep down inside there isn't room enough. And even though ...
KATE

Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis...
KATE

Tic tac, tic tac. Three o clock, it's time to stop, Thinking about what is not. Tic tac, tic tac May...
KATE

Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a...
KATE

Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes...
KATE

Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things. But whe...
KATE

Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm being sleepless in the desert has it's charm. A billion ...
KATE

Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while..... Maybe I am lost longer then I think....
KATE

They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone...
KATE

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent....... Now I know what I did wrong all the ti...
KATE

Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther...
KATE

My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep.
KATE

Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few..
KATE

Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ...
KATE

I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last...
KATE

I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun, but it looks like I have to settle for less again.
KATE

You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ...
KATE

If water would be running up, would it wash away the spots, underneath the places, where we usually ...
KATE

No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t...
KATE

Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.
LAUREN KATE

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and...
KATE FORSYTH

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like...
KATE MOSS

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON

I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON

I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ...
KATE KLISE

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi...
KATE ATKINSON

So the storm passed and every one was happy.
KATE CHOPIN

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE

I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st...
KATE WINSLET

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu...
KATE WINSLET

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils tha...
KATE WINSLET

I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
KATE WINSLET

I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
KATE WINSLET

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
KATE WINSLET

I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's...
KATE WINSLET

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother...
KATE WINSLET

I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and d...
KATE WINSLET

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to...
KATE WINSLET

Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
KATE WINSLET

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
KATE WINSLET

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to...
KATE WINSLET

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
KATE WINSLET

What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life...
KATE WINSLET

I do have impossibly high standards.
KATE WINSLET

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all ...
KATE WINSLET

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
KATE WINSLET

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
KATE WINSLET

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
KATE WINSLET

British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho...
KATE WILLIAMS

People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh...
KATE WILLIAMS

When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box...
KATE WILLIAMS

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
KATE WILLIAMS

One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think...
KATE WILLIAMS

I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'...
KATE WILLIAMS

Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the...
KATE WILLIAMS

I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women...
KATE WILLIAMS

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri...
KATE WILLIAMS

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history...
KATE WILLIAMS

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his...
KATE WILLIAMS

Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth...
KATE WILLIAMS

The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t...
KATE WILLIAMS

Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa...
KATE WILLIAMS

I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha...
KATE WILLIAMS

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a...
KATE WILLIAMS

Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow...
KATE WILLIAMS

I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
KATE WILLIAMS

The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ...
KATE WILLIAMS

I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016...
KATE WILLIAMS

Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m...
KATE WILLIAMS

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
KATE WALSH

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ...
KATE WALSH

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ...
KATE WALSH

I struggle with control.
KATE WALSH

I loved campaigning for Obama.
KATE WALSH

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH

I still like to make crank calls.
KATE WALSH

I would definitely love to be a parent.
KATE WALSH

No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g...
KATE WALSH

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
KATE WALSH

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
KATE WALSH

I've done every diet there is.
KATE WALSH

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
KATE WALSH

I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
KATE WALSH

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
KATE WALSH

I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc...
KATE WALSH

I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
KATE WALSH

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
KATE WALSH

I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
KATE WALSH

People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from...
KATE WALSH

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
KATE WALSH

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
KATE WALSH

I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor...
KATE WALSH

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
KATE WALSH

I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of...
KATE VOEGELE

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations....
KATE VOEGELE

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb...
KATE VOEGELE

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
KATE VOEGELE

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song...
KATE VOEGELE

More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i...
KATE VOEGELE

I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ...
KATE VOEGELE

Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences ...
KATE VOEGELE

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO

I hate to cook and love to eat.
KATE DICAMILLO

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
KATE DICAMILLO

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
KATE DICAMILLO

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay...
KATE DICAMILLO

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I w...
KATE DICAMILLO

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
KATE DICAMILLO

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s...
KATE DICAMILLO

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
KATE DICAMILLO

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
KATE DICAMILLO

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ...
KATE DICAMILLO

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch...
KATE DICAMILLO

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
KATE DICAMILLO

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f...
KATE DICAMILLO

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
KATE DICAMILLO

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele...
KATE CLINTON

They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee...
KATE CLINTON

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, spo...
KATE CLINTON

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefo...
KATE CLINTON

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
KATE CLINTON

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it...
KATE CLINTON

What goes for sex goes double for politics.
KATE CLINTON

We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
KATE CLINTON

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want...
KATE CLINTON

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i...
KATE CLINTON

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r...
KATE CLINTON

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le...
KATE CLINTON

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON

I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ...
KATE CLINTON

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,...
KATE CLINTON

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
KATE CLINTON

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sund...
KATE CLINTON

I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
KATE CHRISTENSEN

On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
KATE CHRISTENSEN

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti...
KATE CHOPIN

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...
KATE CHOPIN

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
KATE CHOPIN

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

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