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Kate Bernheimer

I love the idea of the ‘vignette,’ which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

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.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

In the old fairy tales, often a ‘moral’ was tacked on at the end of the story – say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don’t really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird – part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

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

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

As scientists have discovered – or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified – we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can’t help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I’m very excited when I notice that.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney’s version of ‘Cinderella,’ see the stepsisters’ eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

People tend to think of fairy tales as ‘archetypal.’ They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

– Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer

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.

– Kate Bernheimer

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