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The feather duster is a goose that lays golden eggs; the ladder, the tower from which Rapunzel lets down her hair; the curtain rod, a support for the dresses worn by Cinderella’s hardhearted Stepsisters.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2016

This Time the Trouble Isn’t Wicked Stepsisters The performer-writer Ann Liv Young belongs to the movement in the arts that was labeled Sensation in the 1990s.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2010

Hammerstein, a gentle soul, also evidently felt compelled to soften the children's fable for grownups by reforming the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters into merely pesky comic types.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stepsisters to the Army, the WAACs do not have the privileges of the women of other services which are integral parts of Navy, Coast Guard or Marine Corps.

From Time Magazine Archive