May 20, 2013

Cinderella’s Calluses

Doesn't she look terrified? And that prince... Horror.

  “The prince knew at once, looking at her hands, she was no stranger to any household chore.” Every story about a poor but hardworking girl who ends up marrying a prince, getting a great fortune, or both, has this line. At least in Romanian. Little girls imagine those hands are translucent, and the prince [...]