“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”

“If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse.”

“JANE: What to do when it is that time in your girl child's life:1. Sit down calmly and explain sex to her?2. Buy her a book, video, or CD that gives her the details?3. Buy her condoms and put her on the pill?Or do as many mothers before you did—just stick your head in the sand and hope she joins a convent.Of course these days your child may know more about sex than you did at her age, what with in-school health lessons, and out-of-school R-rated movies easily accessed on the TV, not to mention the Starr Report!In the days of fairy tales, sex was dangerous because so many women died in childbirth. Today sex is again dangerous because of diseases like AIDS. So what do we say?”

“Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.”

“Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.”

“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”

“You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.”