Princess Quotes:

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

- Adam Lambert

topic: Mom, Dad, Princess

I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.

- Adam Young

topic: Princess, Loser, Sandcastles

Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

- Alex Flinn

topic: Girl, Princess, Life Is Like, Beastly

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

- Alex Flinn

source: Alex Flinn (2009). “A Kiss in Time”, p.12, Harper Collins

topic: Fashion, Princess

If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'

- Alfonso Cuaron

topic: Princess, Would Be, Littles, Little Princess

Prince Charming is very nice and very honest and very confident in who he is and funny and knows how to have a kick-ass fun time. Is willing to melt away so that nothing else exists in the world except himself and his princess and loves food and cats and every life form except human beings which is not necessary.

- Alicia Silverstone

topic: Fun, Nice, Princess, Fun Times

The Princess and the Pea?" Gabrielle suggested. "Not enough time," Kat said "Where's Waldo?" Gabrielle went on. "No." Hamish recoiled. "I am still not allowed back in Morocco.

- Ally Carter

topic: Princess, Enough Time, Morocco, Not Enough Time

I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

- Aly Raisman

topic: Princess, Thinking, Style

I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how I ended up at this fiberglass table with you losers.

- Alyson Noel

topic: Beautiful, Princess, Ideas, Luxurious

Loki," I said. "Hey, Princess." He smiled dazedly as he looked up at me. "What's wrong?" "Nothing." I smiled and shook my head. "Not anymore." "What's this?" He took my hair and held it out so i could see. A curl near the front had gone completely silver. "I take a nap, and you go gray?" "You didn't take a nap." I laughed. "Don't you remember what happened?" He furrowed his brow, trying to remember, and understanding flashed in his eyes. "I remember..." Loki touched my face. "I remember that I love you." I bent down, kissing him full on the mouth, and he held me to him.

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Princess, Love You, Eye

You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will?" I raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You're roaming around the castle freely." "As are you." He turned away from me then. "Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Believe, Princess, Eyebrows, Roaming Around

You know, back in the day, when a guy saved a Princess's life, she would reward him with a kiss...

- Amanda Hocking

source: Amanda Hocking (2012). “Switched”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

topic: Princess, Kissing, Guy

I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would it?" "Don't be absurd," I scoffed. "I don't condone murder, even for people like you." "People like me,huh?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You mean devilishly handsome, debonair young men who come to sweep rebellious princesses of their feet?" "You came to kidnap me, not sweep me off my feet," I said,but he waved his hand at the idea. "Semantics.

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Princess, Mean, Men, Debonair, Miss Me

She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki "You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Suicide, Princess, Missions

If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

- Andy Eddy

topic: Kings, Queens, Princess, Kidnapped

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales

- Andy Zaltzman

source: "Not amused by Jimmy Carr? Check out these comedians instead" by Hazel Davis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2009.

topic: Princess, School, Would Be, Diana, Britons

I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent's, were not little girls that I admired... the little princesses. They weren't characters that I identified with. I think that's very different now for my girls and more recent films.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Girl, Princess, Character, Little Princess, Female Characters

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

- Anika

topic: Dream, Princess, Voice, Being A Princess

I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?' I just never thought the first black princess would be me.

- Anika

topic: Mother, Princess, White

Well maybe the princess shouldnt be a damsel and she can save herself.

- Anita Sarkeesian

topic: Princess, Wells

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Growing Up, Princess, Diaries, Catwoman, Princess Diaries

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Princess, Diaries, Film, Princess Diaries

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Jobs, Princess, School, Princess Diaries

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.

- Anne Ursu

topic: Father, Princess, Knights

The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

- Anthony Holden

topic: Retirement, Princess, Years, Public Life

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

- Anthony Holden

topic: Growing Up, War, Princess

The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Country, Princess, Writing, Political Activism

As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the ***** of sentiment never let up.

- Barbara Kruger

topic: Princess, Media, Insane

I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess.

- Bella Thorne

topic: Princess, Looks

My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

- Bella Thorne

topic: Dad, Princess, Dark

I think that since it's prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf - out and big.

- Bella Thorne

topic: Princess, Mean, Thinking

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

- Bethenny Frankel

topic: Princess, Reality, Fairytale, Fairy Princess

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

- Bette Midler

topic: Princess, Royalty, Spite

I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!

- Brittany Snow

source: "Brittany snow's favorite things". www.seventeen.com. August 15, 2007.

topic: Princess, Cheesy, Bags, Paper Bags

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

- C. S. Forester

topic: Book, Princess, Seven, Mattresses

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

- Caitlin Moran

topic: Princess, Looks, Feminine

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

- Cameron Dokey

source: Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

topic: Princess, Lovely, Dawn, Little Princess

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Girl, Princess, White, Film Noir, White Girl

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Princess, President, Want

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Death, Princess, Infernal Devices, Comrade, Clockwork Princess

They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Children, Princess, Love You, Tessa Gray, William Herondale

Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.

- Catherine Gilbert Murdock

topic: Art, War, Princess, Misconduct, Reunited

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

- Charles Perrault

source: Charles Perrault (2015). “The sleeping beauty in the woods”, p.13, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

topic: Country, Kings, Princess

The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

- Charles Perrault

source: Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

topic: Kings, Princess, Son

I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.

- Cher Lloyd

source: Source: www.justjared.com

topic: Princess, Able, Audience

I do love playing games, but once I have a girlfriend, she will be my princess.

- Cho Kyuhyun

topic: Girlfriend, Princess, Playing Games, My Princess

Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though!

- Christa B. Allen

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Revenge, Princess, Play, Belle

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess

- Christian Dior

topic: Dream, Princess, Heart

A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them

- Christina Dodd

topic: Princess, Care, May

I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.

- Christy Carlson Romano

topic: Song, Princess, Thinking, Compilation, Princess Diaries

Raisa felt relieved, yet oddly disappointed. She was the blooded princess heir, yet in servants' clothes she was apparently unrecognizable. In the stories, rulers had a natural presence about them that identified them as such, even dressed in rags. What's the nature of royalty, she wondered. Is it like a gown you put on that disappears when you take it off? Does anyone look beyond the finery? Could anyone in the queendom take her place, given the right accessories? If so, it was contrary to everything she'd ever been taught about bloodlines.

- Cinda Williams Chima

topic: Princess, Clothes, Taught, Bloodline

Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.

- Cindy Gerard

topic: Princess, Giving, Kingdoms

If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.

- Cintra Wilson

topic: Princess, Wind, Epilepsy, Strobe Lights, Diana

When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an enchanted time and place where women are princesses and magnificent goddesses. In today's modern world we need to pause and indulge in beauty.

- Claire Pettibone

topic: Princess, Design, Special

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

- Clive James

topic: Princess, Tennis, Looks, Borg

Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.

- Colin Welland

topic: Princess, Player, Thinking, Wigan, Rugby League

What are you doing?" "Kneeling before a goddess." "I'm not a goddess." "You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it.

- Colleen Houck

topic: Queens, Princess, Men, Worship You, Boon

What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

- Cornelia Funke

topic: Princess, Stories, Matter, Inkheart, Dustfinger

I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

- Dan Fogler

topic: Dream, Growing Up, Princess, Leia, Vat

You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately.

- David Levithan

topic: Girl, Song, Princess, Courtship

I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

- David O. Russell

source: "Writer-director David O. Russell". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. February 08, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Princess, People, Tough Women

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

- Demi Lovato

topic: True Love, Princess, Charming, Inspirational True Love

Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. She/he will be ignorant, hasty and shy, and will need hauling out of trouble quite a lot. But she/he will grow up in the course of the Tour. In fact she/he will be the only Companion who will change in any way. Quite often, she/he will soon exhibit a very useful talent for magic and end up by hauling everyone else out of trouble. But this will not be until midway through your second brochure.

- Diana Wynne Jones

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Princess, Midway, Brochures

Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years

- E.D. Baker

source: E. D. Baker (2010). “The Frog Princess”, p.4, A&C Black

topic: Girl, Princess, Years

Your father is the first person to tell me that I am lovely who seemed to mean it. The only people who've told me that before were ones who think they're supposed to flatter a princess' 'I think you're lovely,' murmured Eadric. 'Only because you love me,' I said. 'Hmm,' he said, kissing me before I could say anything else.

- E.D. Baker

source: E.D. Baker (2008). “Once Upon a Curse”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Father, Princess, Mean

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

- E.D. Baker

topic: Princess, Believe, People

All rappers are princesses like me.

- Earl Sweatshirt

source: "What I've Learned: Earl Sweatshirt, on Being a Teenage Rap Prodigy Back From Exile" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. August 19, 2013.

topic: Princess, Rapper

Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.

- Edmondo De Amicis

source: "Constantinople". Book by Edmondo De Amicis, 1877.

topic: Beautiful, Princess, Thinking, Westerners, Northerners

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

- Edward James Olmos

topic: Princess, Giving, Saint, Diana

The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that one day, you are the most valuable creature in the world - a treasure, a princess, a prize.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Princess, One Day, Wedding Day

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

- Emilia Clarke

topic: Congratulations, Princess, Bye, Bye Bye

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.

- Emma Watson

topic: Girl, Princess, Warrior

Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. Conor: I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery. Victor Vigny: Trust me, It's a classic.

- Eoin Colfer

topic: Teacher, Falling In Love, Princess, Dashing, Flying Machines

Holly is alive,' thought Foaly 'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon

- Eoin Colfer

topic: Princess, Dragons, Hollies, Orion, My Princess

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

- Erica Jong

topic: Confused, Princess, Role Models, Diana, Dori

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

- Erin Morgenstern

topic: Princess, Hero, Dragons, Night Circus

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

- Erin Morgenstern

topic: Princess, Way, Affair

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Princess, Play, Interesting, Leia, Pastries

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

source: Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.44, Xist Publishing

topic: Sweet, Laughter, Princess, Little Princess, Sweet Things

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

topic: Princess, Air, Spices, Little Princess

All women are princesses , it is our right.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

topic: Princess, Little Princess

The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.

- Frank Beddor

topic: Princess, Aunt, Air, Airborne

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Life, Real, Princess

Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Princess, Men, Thinking, Concubines

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

- Frank Herbert

topic: Attitude, Princess, Knives

Look, my best friend is Xena, Warrior Princess and she is not going to like this forced wedding thing, if you get my drift.

- Gabrielle

topic: Princess, Warrior, My Best Friend

You saved me again," she told him with a starstruck gaze. He cupped her cheek and gave her a tender smile in the dark. "Because you are my princess and I am your knight.

- Gaelen Foley

source: Gaelen Foley (2007). “Princess: (Book 2 in the Ascension Trilogy)”, p.173, Ballantine Books

topic: Princess, Dark, Knights, My Princess, Cheeks

Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

- Gavin MacLeod

topic: Princess, World, Growing

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

- Gavin MacLeod

topic: Princess, Two, Islands, Identical, Cruise Ships

Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!

- Gerard Way

topic: Princess, Looks, Tiaras, Bracelet, Popsicles

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

- Ginnifer Goodwin

source: "'Once Upon a Time's' Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison Explain Its Version of 'Ever After'" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2011.

topic: Princess, Thinking, Way, Grimm

You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.

- Ginnifer Goodwin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dream, Princess, Play, Fruitful Life

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

- Giuliana Rancic

topic: Princess, School, Years, Russian Mafia

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.

- Gloria Allred

topic: Princess, Fighting, Rights

Letter 1 To the princess of the elephants, I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year. I will never be more of myself than in these letters. They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

- Gregory Colbert

topic: Princess, Years, Elephants, Please Forgive Me

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

- Hans Christian Andersen

topic: Stupid, Princess, Sea

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.

- Hayden Panettiere

topic: Princess, Ice, Funny Things

I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

- Heidi Montag

topic: Religious, Couple, Princess, Reading The Bible

And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship. That is not what happened.

- Helen Oyeyemi

source: Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

topic: Beautiful, Wise, Princess

I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.

- Helene Hanff

topic: Girl, Princess, Mean, Seclusion, Ovaries

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

- Irvine Welsh

topic: Princess, Men, Ghouls, Trolleys

A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.

- J. Christopher Herold

source: J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Princess, Heart, Men, Marie, Intimate Friends

Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.

- Jack Barakat

source: Twitter post from Apr 13, 2012

topic: Princess, Mirrors, Land, Prettiest

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

- Jack Vance

source: Jack Vance (2002). “Lyonesse”, p.61, ElectricStory

topic: Princess

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Princess, People, Want, Charlotte, Bronte

I'm a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max

- James Patterson

topic: Princess, People, Feelings, Everglades

And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now.

- James St. James

topic: Running, Princess, Cowboy, Fairy Princess

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

- James Wolcott

topic: Stars, Kings, Princess, Same Love, Pious

Today Arnold Schwarzenegger made another major announcement. He said his lieutenant governor will be Xena, Warrior Princess.

- Jay Leno

topic: Princess, Warrior, Today, Announcements, Lieutenants

I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

- Jayne Mansfield

topic: Queens, Princess, May, I May Not Be

She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, ***** in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .

- Jean Genet

topic: Sweet, Princess, Numbers, Feckless, Succulents

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Princess, Cake, Way

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.

- Jennifer Garner

topic: Princess, Hard Work, White

I love that whole princess mentality, but I also like throwing my hair in a ponytail and just wearing jeans, going on a hike and then eating a big chili-cheesebur ger.

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

topic: Princess, Hair, Jeans, Chili, Ponytails

She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard's elbow. She was as tall as Poppy, with shining dark-brown hair and blue eyes. An utterly lovely girl, as all the princesses were, yet Oliver thought Petunia was far more beautiful.

- Jessica Day George

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Princess, Lovely Girl, Petunias

Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.

- Jessica Day George

topic: Princess, Eye, Blue, Exchanging, Petunias

How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

- Jessica Day George

source: Jessica Day George (2014). “Tuesdays at the Castle”, p.187, A&C Black

topic: Princess, Speak, Longing

Galen!" The crown princess flung herself into her husband's arms with a glad cry. The other princesses shrieked and threw themselves at their brother-in-law only a moment later.

- Jessica Day George

topic: Brother, Husband, Princess, Galen, Brother In Law

And you wish to protect a beautiful princess, with whom you have fallen in love. But do you understand how dire the situation is? He life and the lives of her sisters are hanging in the balance. You yourself risk death if you choose this path." "I don't care," Oliver said. He stood up and faced the bishop. "I don't care! I love Petunia, and this is what I'm choosing, right here and now.

- Jessica Day George

topic: Beautiful, Princess, Risk, Petunias

The nickname (Ice Princess) is just based on my looks on the outside , once you get to know me , you'll get to like me.

- Jessica Jung

topic: Princess, Ice, Looks, Get To Know Me

Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.” “You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked. “What is that?” she asked.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Princess, Sleep, Morrow, Cold Days, Princess Bride

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one

- Joan Didion

topic: Princess, Self, Rose

I grew up with Cinderella. So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

- Jodi Benson

topic: Princess, Illinois, Broadway

My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.

- John C. McGinley

topic: Princess, Son, Max

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

- John Deacon

topic: Princess, Shy, Diana

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

- John Donne

topic: Stars, Princess, Fall, Constellations

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

- John Ford

source: 'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 2, sc. 2

topic: Princess, Joy, Heaven, Earth Life

Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

- John Travolta

source: Parade Interview, parade.com. December 4, 2007.

topic: Nice, Princess, Eye, Diana

He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

- Judy Grahn

source: Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”

topic: Mother, Husband, Princess, Strider, Barley

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

- Julie Andrews

source: "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Princess, Crowns, Looking Beautiful

I was minding my own buisness long before you and the princess started humping like rabbits.

- Julie Kagawa

topic: Princess, Long, Rabbits, Buisness

Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.

- Justin Bieber

topic: Princess, Hey, Crowns, Beliebers, My Princess

I loved Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.' I just wanted to be her. I'm a brunette, so I think I kind of cling to all those princesses that have brown hair. I just wanted to be them.

- Kara Lindsay

source: "Diva Talk: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.

topic: Princess, Thinking, Hair, Brunette, Belle

Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

- Kate DiCamillo

topic: Princess, Feet, Speak

Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.

- Kathryn Lasky

source: "An Interview with Kathryn Lasky about Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

topic: Princess, Kids, Years

If there is a gay army, I am their warrior princess.

- Kathy Griffin

topic: Princess, Warrior, Gay

One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.

- Katie McGrath

topic: Princess, Mind, Firsts, Morgana

The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.

- Kato

topic: Mother, Father, Princess, Prime Numbers

I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

- Kidada Jones

topic: Princess, Affinity

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.

- Kiera Cass

topic: Princess, Ambition, Aspens, Great Ambition

Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned,I do the poisoning.I'm the princess of it.

- Kresley Cole

source: Kresley Cole (2013). “Poison Princess”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

topic: Princess, Titles, Remember, Poisoning

If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own!

- Kyo Shirodaira

topic: Princess, Rescue

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

- Lady Randolph Churchill

topic: Princess, World, May

I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

- Lalla Ward

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Princess, Mean, Firsts

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

- Lalla Ward

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fun, Princess, Having Fun

I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.

- Laura Osnes

source: "*Cinderella'*s Laura Osnes: My Co-star Santino Fontana Is the Reason I Met My Husband". Interview with Andrea Cuttler, www.vanityfair.com. March 15, 2013.

topic: Dream, Fun, Princess

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Growing Up, Princess, Want

[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

- Laurence Sterne

topic: Motivation, Princess, Passion

All the Disney Princess films are iconic and beautiful, so to have been a part of all that was really a wonderful part of my life. Its all fabulous, too, that I have a daughter that appreciates the whole Princess thing.

- Lea Salonga

topic: Beautiful, Daughter, Princess

It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.

- Leven Rambin

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Strong, Princess, Independent

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

- Lillie Langtry

topic: Princess, Night, London, Wales, Duchess

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

- Lily James

source: "The Leading Lady". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2014.

topic: Princess, Thinking, White

Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts.

- Lily James

topic: Grief, Princess, Heart, Unbelievable Things, Great Role Models

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

- Lisa Marie Presley

topic: Father, Princess, Spoiled, Spoiled Brat, Brat

What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

- Lloyd Alexander

topic: Daughter, Princess, House, Young Ladies, Being A Princess

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.

- Lon Milo DuQuette

source: Lon Milo DuQuette (2012). “The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.6, Weiser Books

topic: Sweet, Princess, Glasses, Caskets, Treasurer

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

- Lorde

topic: Princess, Writing, Heart

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

- Loretta Young

topic: Girl, Dream, Princess, Kings And Princes

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

- Lorna Luft

topic: Princess, Thinking, Dating, Diana

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

- Madeleine Albright

topic: Princess, Warrior, Role Models

Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

- Mandy Moore

topic: Princess, Thinking, Towers, Rapunzel, Barefoot

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Selfish, Princess, Want, Overbearing

I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.

- Mariah Carey

topic: Fun, Princess, Mean

Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.

- Marian Keyes

topic: Nice, Princess, Eye, Meant To Be Together, Former Life

God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. Where ominous music comes on-screen so you can't possibly mistake him. Where someone asks you to choose between playing with the beautiful princess in the fragrant garden and being eaten by the hideous monster in the foul-smelling pit. Not exactly a difficult one, now is it? Not something that you would agonize over, or that would make you lose a night's sleep?

- Marian Keyes

topic: Beautiful, Mistake, Princess, Heroes And Villains

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Queens, Princess, Heart

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.

- Marina Abramovic

topic: Baby, Princess, Boys, Pimples, Blouses

I think it was hiding a princess.

- Marissa Meyer

topic: Princess, Thinking, Hiding

Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.

- Mark Riebling

source: "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.

topic: Princess, Italian, Tunnels, Egyptian, Belgians

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

- Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

topic: Dream, Children, Princess

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!

- Maurice Ravel

topic: Princess, Remember

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.

- Max Muller

topic: Children, Princess, Kissing

anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming

- Meg Cabot

topic: Morning, Princess, Paris

Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel on, since he was right-I never back up my computer's hard drive. The sight of it-it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Princess, Eye, Sight, Leia, Little Princess

And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there!

- Meg Cabot

topic: Princess, Boys, Central Park, Chipmunks

Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Princess, Waiting, Down And

I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.

- Melissa McCarthy

topic: Princess, Creepy, Want

I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

- Mindy Kaling

topic: Princess, Looks, Red

Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.

- Mindy McCready

topic: Princess, Men, Roger, Wonderful Man

Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?

- Mira Grant

topic: Morning, Wall, Princess

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

- Missi Pyle

source: "John Goodman and Missi Pyle Talk the Artist, Robert Zemeckis’ Flight, Pixar’s Monsters University, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, More". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. November 16, 2011.

topic: Princess, Thinking, Play, Middle America, Princess Bride

Which lady would I like to meet? Um, I don't know that there's anybody left that I didn't meet. But the one that I really wanted to meet died and that was Princess Diana. I really wanted to get to know her. I like her.

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Princess, Diana, Wanted

Obviously, I need to study princesses further.

- Nalini Singh

topic: Princess, Needs, Study

The Princess Mahiya, and she is mine.

- Nalini Singh

topic: Princess

Endymion, you are my first love, my only love... even if we're reborn, in another life, we'll find each other... and then... We'll fall in love again... - Princess Serenity

- Naoko Takeuchi

topic: Falling In Love, Princess, First Love, Love Again, Falling In Love Again

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.

- Nelly

topic: Girl, Princess, Dressed Up

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.

- Nelly Furtado

topic: Girl, Princess, Clothes, Dressed Up

You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

- Norton Juster

topic: Princess, May, Way, Phantom Tollbooth

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

- Norton Juster

topic: Inspirational, Mistake, Princess, Phantom Tollbooth

And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

- Norton Juster

topic: Sweet, Princess, Sight, Phantom Tollbooth

I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!

- Octavia Spencer

topic: Princess, Winning, Oscars

When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

- Olivier Theyskens

topic: Princess, Kids, Thinking

I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace...

- Pamela Des Barres

topic: Brother, Princess, Flower, Garden Of Eden

I'm not like anybody else. I'm like an American princess.

- Paris Hilton

topic: Princess

No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!

- Patricia C. Wrede

source: Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Latin, Princess, Dragons

Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana) told me how he had sat with her one night when she was upset over the loss of HRH, put his arms around her and said: Don't worry, Mummy. I will give it back to you one day when I am king.

- Paul Burrell

topic: Kings, Princess, Loss, Highness, Diana

Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses.

- Paul Dini

source: "Blood-Boiler of the Day: TV Show Canceled for Having Too Many Smart, Interesting Girl Characters" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2013.

topic: Girl, Princess, Boys, Action Figures

There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of the rest of their lives.

- Peggy Orenstein

topic: Girl, Princess, Taken, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

- Peter S. Beagle

source: "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

topic: Uncles, Lying, Princess, Being A Hero, Wicked Things

Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted. "Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.

- Philippa Gregory

topic: Queens, Children, Princess, My Princess