18 Quotes by Alicia Alvrez

In the original story, Cinderella didn’t wear glass slippers (which makes sense–glass would break). She wore squirrel fur slippers. But the person who translated the tale from French to English confused pantouffles en vair with pantouffles en verre, and glass it became.

Seahorses mate during the full moon. And they are great examples of role reversals— it is the male that bears the children.

Gemma Galgani, the patron saint of hospital pharmacists was the sickly daughter of a pharmacist who lived in Italy in the early twentieth century.

In 1979, a bra called the Loving Cup was introduced. You could program it around your menstrual cycle so that it would flash a red or green light as to whether the wearer was in her fertile period or not.

In the middle ages, couples used to get married in the bathtub because water signified purity. The couple and their attendants would stand in a tub filled with water.

If you linger in the bathtub, chances are you will emerge as a wrinkled prune. That's because prolonged exposure to water causes skin's natural water repellent, keratin, to dissolve and the cells in the epidermis layer to absorb water and swell, causing puckering.

Before the days of indoor plumbing, wealthy French women didn't like the idea of showing their bodies in public at public bathhouses. So they would pay for horse-drawn bathtubs to come to them— complete with towels and hot water.

Blondes have more hair than the rest of us; redheads have the least.

Hair grows faster at night than during the day and between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four.