Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.
A society that doesn’t know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.
The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen’s club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.