Posted AT 2:01 AM EDT on 08/05/08
Happy under-appreciation day: Celebrating the stepmom
“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”
It's not a line from
Cinderella, as written by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century. It's not even from Shakespeare, whose play
Cymbeline included a nasty step-queen. The snake-beats-a-stepmom line was written even before that.
Thank Euripides, the Ancient Greek poet. He was observing life circa 480-406 BC.
So, the good news is, archetypal anti-stepmotherhood is a kind of club.
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