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...while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.
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fairy-tales
fairytale
introspection
introvert
princesses
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Gail Carson Levine |
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9b57b4e
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A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them
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funny
princesses
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Christina Dodd |
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Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one,
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granny-risa
princesses
servants
young-risa
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Sherwood Smith |
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It is all very well to say that all princesses are good and beautiful and charming; but this is usually a determined optimism on everybody's part rather than the truth. After all, if a girl is a princess, she is undeniably a princess, and the best must be made of it; and how much pleasanter it would be if she were good and beautiful. There's always hope that if enough people believe as though she is, a little of it will rub off.
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humor
princesses
the-door-in-the-hedge
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Robin McKinley |
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140c1a7
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Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress.
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princess-diana
princesses
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Eleanor Herman |
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267eb88
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So was she on the side of dragons and indifferent to the fate of princesses?
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fairy-tales
iris-murdoch
princesses
the-green-knight
tropes
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Iris Murdoch |
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778208c
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Children are less easily frightened than we are.... they all understand princesses, of course. Haven't they all been badly bruised by peas?
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creativity
fear
imagination
princesses
understanding
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Madeleine L'Engle |