“I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.” MindBelieveI CanWould BeRunningRememberMotherHouseSoundWifeSickShoesTalesMind ControlOld Wives Tales Author:Eileen Davidson
“Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.” WorldWayCultureLanguageWifeJokesSpreadTalesAround The WorldOld Wives Tales Book:Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh? Source: Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?
“The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.” ThinkingChildrenStoriesWifeSafeMarriedScaredTalesFairyFairy TaleCastlesLureOlden Days Author:Meryl Streep
“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.” MenEnoughMovingWifeTalesLabourOld ManMoving AwayConstantly MovingOld Wives Tales Author:Vincent Massey
“The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBodyRoomsWifeFindingsOriginalsTalesFairyFairy TaleCastles Author:Alice Hoffman