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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She poured a little social sewage into his ears...Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it...Your life is like a play with several acts...We must let go of the life we have planned...God gave us the gift of life...I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me...