“It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.
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I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing women, then I don't even know.”
Greta Gerwig I love you. You brought to life our childhood dreams. You made us laugh, think and cry. The opening scene? America Ferrera's monologue? so POWERFUL. Greta knows, she gets us. She knows how it feels to be women, she knows how it feels to be a little girl growing into a young woman. The scene with 'what was I made for' in the background got me SOBBING. She knows how it feels to be a human being. How beautiful it is to be human and feel, despite everything