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Kill the Princess: Why Women Still Aren't Free From the Quest for a Fairytale Life

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Vermeulen's book tosses the question of responsibility and accountability back at women and asks that they not only understand the societal norms that have 'conditioned' the thinking that women are the weaker gender and precipitated their submissive roles and functions in today's society, but that in so doing, women realize that they have the power and ability to change those classic roles, responsibilities and functions.
It's a call to women to see that the onus for a societal shift in attitude towards women is ON THEM, and therefore, far from suggesting, as the previous review states, that Vermeulen sees all men as pigs, she challenges women who see or feel themselves victim to these classic roles to take a look at how they got there, why they have accepted being there and make changes to empower themselves and improve the quality of their lives.

Vermeulen's style is easy to read, witty and hard hitting- a very enjoyable and thought provoking read about universal issues concerning women.

Freedom rings true
By Jeannie Bloomfield, July 4, 2008

As Americans celebrate their freedom on this Forth of July, I rejoice in finding my own personal freedom from self, after reading Vermeulen's work. Her message helped me to find the missing piece that I was searching for, and I woke up!

I am very grateful for the new awareness that Vermeulen has brought to my life. I am thrilled to pass this awareness on to my twenty- four- year old daughter so that her world can expand in new ways. I am honored to include Vermeulen's work as a resource to share with my clients, women in transition, in my Feng Shui consulting business, so that their lives may open in new ways too. The world continues to widen for women, as we share and discover the missing pieces that Vermeulen helps us to uncover with her unique message and writing style. Freedom rings true for the awakened princess, like a phoenix rising, to become Queen of her own destiny. The story of freedom continues to unfold for today's women, as we are inspired to find the missing peace and heal it with love.

Assertiveness! It's a quality that many women sorely lack, to their detriment. Vermeulen urges women to break their old habits of self-scarifice and subservience. "It is not a woman's responsibility to feed energy to men." Women have the power to change and in so doing, they will change the way that society interacts with them.
Through self-acceptance, women are able to unleash their gifts and talents. Women are exhorted to embrace the totality of who they are and rely less on social approval. Through respecting themselves, women can create the environment for others to respect them too.
This is not a male-bashing book, but rather one which helps women to break the cycle of disempowerment.

This is essential reading for any woman wanting to develop herself and for men who wish to understand the processes through which women have been suppressed and who wish to be part of breaking the cycle.

Vermeulen delivers her message in the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove analogy. Sassy, sexy, fun and adventurous, she is wickedly caustic and endearingly supportive of all women and men waking up to the stories and myths we have swallowed hook-line-and-sinker without much thought to the dire consequences of examination. These deadly and persuasive myths have kept us all in chains, which in a Vermeulen cosmos, are easily chucked aside by simple awareness. All it takes is a hard look and some humor. Voila, we walk free. Get on board!