He wa a prince! Oh... well, she was a princess, but she was the youngest of 8! It wasn't as if she was actually needed around the palace. What about the message of "follow your heart", "trust your curiousity"?

I always remember the fact that her father had the power, the whole time, to give her what she wanted. Yet didn't, until she proved that was what she really wanted.

Ooh, another fave Disney heroine? Belle. She was bookish, and gutsy, and sweet. And, nicely sarcastic when it came to Gaston. *loves*