Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

by Theodora Goss

She watched her daughter grow up, made sure the girl could run and fight, because princesses need protecting, and sometimes princes are worse than useless.

What should women do when they grow old and useless? Become witches. It’s the only role you get to write yourself.

Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.”

In each of us there is a thief and a saint. The trouble of it is, we cannot part them.

Knowledge and power—those count for something when one is old.” “As do the memory of loving and being loved,” says the queen dowager.

Wake up, wake up! you say. You will sleep all too soon—now is the time to live as though you were going to live forever, as though winter never comes and all the fairy tales were true.