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  Huffington Post |  Today’s Princesses and Witches Are Taking Bitchy Back

“…it’s true; jealous stepsisters, evil stepmothers, shrews, she-devils, witches and other bitches are super fun to watch. But I’m glad those sorry-ass fables with binary options are on the wane.”

 

 

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Screen Shot 2015-04-13 at 2.49.44 PMA Q&A with Tracy Ullman for More Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

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The San Francisco Chronicle‘Underbelly’ of being a perfect mom / New sitcom shows women rebelling against, and obsessing about, an impossible ideal

In the wake of the phenomenal success of “Desperate Housewives,” network executives are learning that women, as former Rep. Pat Schroeder once put it, have a brain and a uterus, and can use both.

 

 

Cinderella screenshotSan Francisco Datebook | New Cinderella trades in her glass slipper for a girl power tiara
 The modern princess requires spunk and pluck. She’s still full of feminine grace, modesty and beauty in spades, but her sugary composition is spiced with a smidge of spirit.