People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it was so that she could see what was on the other side, but really, it was so that she wouldn't have to look at herself. That, and because she thought she might be able to steal a piece of glass when no one was looking, and use it to carve her heart out of her chest.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.