Inspiring Barbie Movie Quotes That Empower Women

"We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back and see how far they have come."

- Ruth Handler

"You don't need my permission. I can't control you any more than I could control my own daughter. Us mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they've come."

- Ruth Handler

"By giving voice to the cognitive dissonance required to be a woman under the patriarchy, you robbed it of its power."

- Barbie

"It is literally impossible to be a woman."

- Gloria

"Humans only have one ending. Ideas live forever."

- Ruth Handler

"I’m just so damn tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie ourselves in knots so that people will like us."

- Gloria

"I'm not really sure where I belong anymore. I want to be the creator, not the creation."

- Barbie

"The real world isn’t what I thought it was."

- Barbie

"You are so beautiful and so smart and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough."

- Gloria

"We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they have come."

- Ruth

"I want to be part of the people that make meaning, not the thing that’s made. I want to be the one imagining, not the idea itself."

- Barbie

"We have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong."

- Gloria

"I want to be a part of the people that make meaning, not the thing that is made."

- Barbie

"You're beautiful."

- Stereotypical Barbie

"I know."

- The Woman on the Bench

"The real world is forever and irrevocably messed up."

- Barbie

"That's life. It's all change."

- Gloria

"It’s okay if you’re crying. I cried too. It’s kind of amazing."

- Barbie

"Every night is girls night."

- Barbie

"Even if you can’t make it perfect, you can make it better."

- Sasha

"It’s literally impossible to be women!"

- Gloria

"You can tell them you’ve never seen The Godfather, and they’ll love to explain it to you."

- Barbie

"Do you guys ever think about dying?"

- Barbie

"Every night is girls' night."

- Barbie

"Ideas live forever, humans, not so much. You know that right?"

- Ruth

"I would never wear heels if my feet were shaped like this."

- Barbie

"Shredding waves is much more dangerous than people realize."

- Ken

"You've been making women feel bad about themselves since you were invented."

- Sasha

"We have to always be extraordinary but somehow we’re always doing it wrong."

- Gloria

"Either you’re brainwashed or you’re weird."

- Barbie

"Don’t blame me, blame Mattel. I don’t care."

- Weird Barbie

"I just don’t know who I am without you."

- Ken

"I would never wear heels if my feet were shaped like this!"

- Barbie

"Men look at me like I’m an object, girls hate me."

- Barbie

"I’m a man with no power, does that make me a woman?"

- Aaron Dinkins

"Oh, my God! I had a Weird Barbie!"

- Gloria

"Barbie in the real world? That’s impossible."

- Gloria

"Please call me Mother."

- Matell CEO

"Because Barbie can be anything, women can be anything."

"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."

"You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin."

"You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line. It's too hard! It's too contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you!"

"All of these women are Barbie, and Barbie is all of these women. She might have started out as just a lady in a bathing suit, but she became so much more."

"You’re supposed to stay pretty for men but not so pretty you tempt them too much or you threaten other women. Because you’re supposed to be part of the sisterhood but always stand out."

"Thanks to Barbie, all problems of feminism have been solved."

"No one rests until this doll is back in the box."