Peggy Orenstein (b. 1961)

Peggy Orenstein is an American writer on the politics of everyday life, usually relating to gender. Her books include Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy, as well as Unraveling, Don't Call Me Princess, Flux, and Schoolgirls. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times.

Quotes

It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance.
And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Happiness