„My father was a Brownie, Sir;My mother was a Fairy.The notion had occurred to her,The children would be happier,If they were taught to vary.The notion soon became a craze;And, when it once began, sheBrought us all out in different ways -One was a Pixy, two were Fays,Another was a Banshee.“

— Lewis Carroll

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„My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.“
— Groucho Marx
„When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy. Very likely if they said this in the Kensington Gardens, they were standing looking at a fairy all the time. The reason they were cheated was that she pretended to be something else. This is one of their best tricks.“
— J. M. Barrie
„They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.“
— Virginia Woolf