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41 " When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, which is required in order to let her emotions catch up with her body.Sleeping Beauty sleeps. Cinderella waits, and while she waits she works her way through the darkness of depression. Snow White both works and sleeps before she is ready to open her eyes and find a Prince leaning over her. "
― , Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
42 " It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time. "
― Edna Ferber , Giant
43 " I'm just saying, when a woman in a maiden, she's in the spotlight. Everybody cares what a pretty, young girl does and says. And she's got some pretty strict archetypes to adhere to: Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella or Britney Spears. Pick your poison. But when you become a young mother? People don't give a fuck what you're doing. Their eyes glaze over before they even finish asking you. Once a woman starts doing the most important work of her life, all of a sudden, nobody wants to know a thing about it. "
― Rufi Thorpe , The Girls from Corona del Mar
44 " The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out. "
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips , Ain't She Sweet?