The “princess dream shares the mixture of openness and elitism that gives princesses their contemporary appeal. Like the superhero, the princess has a special identity and destiny. She is more than an ordinary girl. But her value is not determined by playground hierarchies. You don’t have to be popular to be a princess. You can be an iconoclast, even an outcast, but you must be worthy. You must be good. In this version, as my then-5-year-old niece once wrote me, ‘Anyone can be a PRINCESS.'”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703727804576017660080822854.html
H/T to Elena Maria Vidal
