She learned how to love someone so hideous. She then understands that love does not grow out of physical attraction but out of a bond of respect. Giving her the talent and ability to see beauty in the inside and not judge a book by its cover.
Some current interpretations feel that women need to see the sexuality in the beast before they can handle normal heterosexuality in life. Since sexuality is not based in peoples physical appearance yet the attraction to someone emotionally and mentally this needs to be understood. In this day and age sexuality has defiantly begun to be defined minus the active male role and the passive female role. Beauty's goodness in this fairy tale inspired more idealistic forms of lessons that children should learn. Instead of a generic commitment to justice, she wants her own things in life not simply what the population wants for her. .
Young girls think they need to prepare for marriage, where their fathers will give them away to their night in shinning armor after reading many fairy tales. Beauty does not go to the knight in shinning armor nor the one her father wants her to marry. She makes that decision herself. The story book endings that deal with the girl living happily ever after and the male being the hero leads, into a false sense of security. Those moral messages do not allow for young girls to see the other side of the spectrum. They start to think that men are the only option and heterosexuality is the only choice. In the world of diversity these stories are defiantly out dated, the options one has in loving someone is defiantly not a one gender decision. If Beauty and the beast is read in a lesbian point of view, the Beast is seen as the lesbian because of her feelings for Beauty and because she fells ugly and monstrous. The difference in the story is that love doesn't change the beast back to a human but the human (lesbian) is changed into the beast.