Provided by Sara GrantSara Grant at age 5 in Rhode Island in 1991, the year “Beauty and the Beast” was released. Instead, I had a wide range of old navy tech vests (and man, I owned it those things were comfy). Through middle school and high school, I was never one of the cool girls in halter tops who all the boys liked. But I never looked to characters like Belle for their looks, never compared myself to them, with their impossibly tiny waists. Some say they give young girls unattainable standards of beauty and ideas of romance that simply don’t exist. Princesses have gotten plenty of criticism over the years. In the early 1990s, screenwriter Linda Wolverton was inspired by the women’s rights movement when creating the character of Belle. An independent dreamer, a seeker of adventure and - gasp! - a bookworm, Belle looked for more beyond her small village and did not hesitate to storm into a strange castle to save her father. Scrappier than others - or a badass, as I would now proudly call her in my 30s - Belle had a certain spark that I identified with. Essay: “Beauty and the Beast’s” Belle is still my princess – The Denver Postĭisney via The Associated PressThis image released by Disney shows Dan Stevens as The Beast, left, and Emma Watson as Belle in a live-action adaptation of the animated classic “Beauty and the Beast.”Īs a young girl, a brown-haired product of the 1980s with a taste for the musical and a thirst for adventure, I identified with Disney heroine Belle as “my” princess.
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