We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they’ve come.[to Barbie]
When I found out the patriarchy wasn’t about horses, I lost interest anyway.[to Barbie]
Did you bring your Rollerblades?[Barbie]I literally go nowhere without them.[Ken]
Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls.
I want to be a part of the people that make meaning. Not the thing that’s made. I want to do the imagining. I don’t wanna be the idea.[to Ruth]
Humans only have one ending. Ideas live forever, humans not so much.
Everything that men do in your world, women do in ours.[to Gloria and Sasha]
Do you guys ever think about dying?
Watch now on:
Barbie is a doctor and a lawyer and a senator and a Nobel Prize winner.[to Sasha and her friends]
You’re not your girlfriend. You’re not your house, you’re not your mink.[Barbie] Beach?[Ken]Nope. You’re not even beach. Maybe all the things that you thought made you you aren’t really you.[Barbie]
Note to the filmmakers. Margot Robbie is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point.[Barbie: I’m not Stereotypical Barbie pretty.]
It never is. And isn’t that marvelous?[Barbie: The Real World isn’t what I thought it was.]
