Katha Pollitt
Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.
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Be your own artist, and always be confident...I'm always going to get more of a charge...I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport...If you can dream it, you can do it...You must live in the present, launch yourself...It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company...