Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Kidron’s remark frames storytelling as a deep human constant rather than a mere cultural pastime. By invoking “parable and fable,” she points to narrative forms that compress experience into memorable, morally or socially legible patterns—stories that can carry “truths” even when not literally factual. The phrase “inveterate storytellers” suggests an ingrained habit: people make sense of the world, transmit history, and negotiate values through narrative. The quote also implies that attempts to communicate complex realities—personal, political, or historical—often succeed best when shaped into story, because story is how humans naturally remember, persuade, and empathize.