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Cinderella
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper (French: Cendrillon, ou La petite Pantoufle de Verre, Italian: Cenerentola, German: Aschenputtel), is a European folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression in Histoires ou contes du temps passé published by Charles Perrault in 1697, and by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms' Fairy Tales. It can also indicate a story where a young woman is mistreated and is romantically rescued.
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Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets.
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― Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella
― Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella
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That's the tragedy of fairy tales. The whole world puts them on a pedestal. People want their lives to be magical, but what people don't understand is that happiness is sacrificed. There is so much more to the story than what is written. The Cinderella you think she's so unfortunate with her mean sisters and stepmom. You think she deserves a happy ending with a prince, but the twenty-page journey is all you see. You learn little about who she is. What if Cinderella's just a good actress who has
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― The Forgotten Fairytales
― The Forgotten Fairytales
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