For the Love of the Kick-Ass Heroine
By Diane Kelly
February 29, 2012Girls are raised with an abundance of fairy tales in which a pretty but passive princess awaits rescue by her handsome, heroic prince. Cinderella would still be scrubbing floors for her evil stepmother if her prince hadn’t shown up with a glass slipper to play footsie with her. Sleeping Beauty lay comatose until revived via…