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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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you...Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal...Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done...I just feel that sooner or later, the sheer potential...The truth is rarely pure and never simple...Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home...