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1 " We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. "
― Eric Berne
2 " The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to comment on the civilizing process and to keep alive the possibility of miraculous change and a sense of wonderment. "
― Jack D. Zipes , Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
3 " It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries through mothers, who told bedtime stories. "
