![]() ![]() She has a million other attributes-like how she’s a reader in a time where women weren't even educated-she’s extremely brave, she follows her heart. ![]() The only thing that bothered me is how they fixated on her beauty. Growing up, Belle from Beauty and the Beast was my favorite heroine. When I was reading all of them again, for example in Cinderella, I was like, I wonder what the stepmother’s story is? What would Cinderella’s mom say to her? Why was it stressed that the stepsisters were ugly? It was reading the stories and asking myself the questions, writing them down, and then the stories evolved. NG: Originally the book was about 300 pages long, but I yanked a bunch of the stories out. MC: How did you begin to pick apart these fairytales-especially when society has trained us to believe in them? ![]()
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