Thought of the day:

Do not tell me about masculinity and femininity; do not tell me that enchanted frogs turn into princes, that frogesses under a spell turn into princesses. Why slander frogs? Princes and princesses are fools. They do nothing interesting in your stories. According to your history books, you passed through the stage of feudal social organization in Europe some time ago. Frogs, on the other hand, are covered with mucus, which they find delightful; they suffer agonies of passionate desire in the spring, in which the male will embrace a stick or your finger if he cannot get anything better; and they experience rapturous, metaphysical joy (of a froggy sort, to be sure) which shows plainly in their beautiful, chrysomberylline eyes.

How many princes or princesses can say as much?

Joanna Russ, “A Few Things I Know About Whileaway” (Norton, 348)