well-intentioned mothers don’t want children polluted fairy tales deny — Madeleine L’Engle, Walking Water: Reflections Faith Art

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The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity, but they would have them conform to the secular world, with its dirty devices. The world of fairy tale, fantasy, myth, is inimical to the secular world, and in total opposition to it, for it is interested not in limited laboratory proofs but in truth.

Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

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