#barbie mother quote

[artbyamberliu]

Drew the Barbie quote that got me bursting into tears in the theater ❤️‍🩹

[autism-connoisseur]

what if i killed myself rn

[designcoalition]

barbie banner 1/?

[rebelwithoutabroom]

Thoughts on the Barbie movie

There's this quote I saw a while ago on tumblr that went smth like... Father and daughter look down on mother together, they share looks when she says something dull and both agree that she isn't as bright as them, she can't be reasoned with - but that doesn't save the girl from having the mother's fate. In the new barbie movie, the little girl says men hate women and women also hate women. There's also the moment when Ruth says that mothers stay behind so their daughters could look back and see how far they've come. And it's just - God, the system really is rigged when the person who is supposed to be your best (your first!!) ally growing up is forced into this place where she's the strict one, the enforcer, the distorted image of what you don't want for your future.

I'm so guilty of all of this. My mother didn't laugh at the zack snyder jokes or the mansplaining, but she did get the speech of the mom in Berbieland, even if the word feminism had never been spoken out loud between us. For so many years, I had built this idea that my mother simply didn't know about any of that - because how could she? If she knew, why did I still grow up like I did? - and it's just so goddamn easier to blame and reject a mother than take a step back and see her as a woman also bowing under the forces acting up on all of us.

[bigmouthstrikesonceagain]

i wish to doubt her. i never did anything deeply unforgivable and i am not fundamentally evil and yet, i drag the dead weight of my belief behind me like a burden of proof. look at my suffering. watch it’s horrors. see it’s grotesque frailty. proof of guilt. believe in its strength of condemnation.

[milfhandholder]

Never in my life would I think I'd be crying about my mommy issues while watching Barbie (2023) but here we are

[leahthedreamer]

The line in Barbie “We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back and see how far they’ve come” causing so much discourse is so stupidly funny. 

Like you cannot honestly tell me you don’t understand or I fear you’re being purposely dense and comprehension and literacy is at an all time low.

[barbie-edits]

If Merida and Blair got married...

[gorlsgurlsgirls]

The line in Barbie “we mothers stand still so our daughters can look back and see how far they’ve come” is good but last year Turning Red said “don’t hold back for anyone. The farther you go, the prouder I’ll be” and it didn’t get the same recognition 👀

[bimbo02]

My Mother

(Play: What was I made for, by:Billie Eilish)

My mother gave me her entire life, she sacrificed every story, every moment so I could grow in the sun, she told herself she could be happy with just the title of mother, she sacrificed her body, mind, soul to make my life a little more beautiful, give me the opportunity to be little, longer than she ever got to be, my mother nurtured and loved me unconditionally no matter the fight, mistake, she never told me I wasn’t enough when she didn’t believe she could be, even now my mother is a trapped child healing wounds she had long ago, she fought to ensure, I had every material object I needed, she taught me about music, and being a woman in a world full of men who hate us, don’t understand us, my mother was and still is incredible in my eyes, still feel tiny and enamoured by her presence, she has accepted everything about who I am who I try and be, my mother is fierce and powerful, she’s artistic and beyond strong, even now grown I believe she could lift the world with one finger, my mother taught me to be good and kind, polite and patient, crazy and powerful, taught me that beauty is not only outward and physical but about how you love and laugh, how you care for people, how you create things, my mother stuck with a man who treated her as if she wasn’t a person so that me and my sister would know how to love and feel loved, protected and to know that someone in this world will teach you how worthy of love romantically and platonically your worthy of, my mother lived a Grimm brothers connection with my father, but would tell me and my sister about fairytales of great loves, she would invent stories to remind us of such love existing, my mother made sure that we knew how much she loved us and we never knew how much she gave for us, my mother loves being a mother but she is also beyond that and growing and realising that your mother is more than your mother and just another little girl playing with toys questioning the world is the most connecting realisation, and makes me even more proud to be my mothers daughter.

[cursed-clock-shop]

Gerty would have cried during the Barbie movie.

[imbalancing]

an open letter to mama

i watched barbie recently and i got reminded of you, mama. this quote in particular struck me:

"we mothers stand still so our daughters can look back and see how far they've come."

i wasn't even sure if i could write this.

you were already a pretty accomplished person when you had me. but you were also in your early 20s.

just finished college after 6 harrowing years, started doing something you only ever used to dream of, something you've worked so painstakingly hard for. you got married, you had me.

and then you moved abroad to be with dad, with the knowledge that you couldn't have the same job there.

was it to save your marriage? was it for dad?

i always used to ask you, "why did you do it?" i'd ask you several times despite knowing you'd give me the same answer because i refused to believe that that was all it took for you to leave everything behind.

"for love," you'd tell me. every time, i'd wait for a longer answer.

but that was that.

as a kid, i used to think it was so ridiculous, mama. i never told you, but i used to think it was reckless. to give up your career for a man. you worked hard to have that career, and a man wouldn't have to make you work hard at all to have him.

so ridiculous.

as i worked on my own dreams, on my own career — facing the same difficulties you did (i'm following in your footsteps, after all), i started to wonder again.

why did you do it? after all that hard work, after everything, mama, why would you do that?

was it to save your marriage? was it for dad?

and truly, i have never felt stupid and selfish as i did realising you've been giving me the answer my whole life.

for love.

as a kid, i used to think it was because you were too in love to stay behind.

for love.

for me.

it was all for me, so that i could have a good life, so that i could grow up better, and i am so sorry mama because i didn't see that sooner. i'm sorry i ever thought you were so blinded by love you'd forgotten who you were — when, if anything, love gave you clarity and love made you, you.

you knew exactly who you were and who you wanted to be when you made your sacrifices, when you selflessly let go of your own dreams so i'd never have to do the same with my own.

i've spent so much time trying to make you proud that i never once told you how proud i am of you.

thank you, for standing still so i could keep walking forward.

i know we've been drifting apart but i will always thank you, mama. i am who i am and i am where i am because of you.

[ifyouretooshyletmecum]

Lady Bird ending scene

[ps-incorrect-quotes]

Miss. Apple; [uses yeet in a sentence]

Alucard; Mom. No one says yeet

Miss. Apple; yeet is cringe?

Alucard; MOM NO ONE SAYS CRINGE

Miss. Apple; cringe has been yeeted?

[portrait-of-a-little-thing]

barbie is the first movie in a Very long time to make me cry

[chaosmenus]

girls with mommy issues stop excusing your mom's behavior! you should never feel like you aren’t good enough!