如何避免（无偿？）在Zend \ Form或Zend \ View中发生（显然）发生的事件

I have a Zend\Form\Form validating and filtering input which is sent to a database and an email message, and I notice that the quote characters are escaped by backslashes, as in:

I\'ve seen \"fire\" and I\'ve seen \"rain\"

Before you say magic_quotes_gpc: I am using php 5.6. And Zend Framework 2.5 components as standalones (no MVC). I am rendering my elements semi-manually with

echo  $view->formElement($element);

I am not running my input through any filters that would do this, just things like StringTrim. I have used Zend\Form and friends in mvc context doing similar things, with the same versions of everything, and not getting this result.

Do I have to call stripslashes() on my data before doing something with it? That's kind of ugly.

Any ideas?