Barbie 2023 quotes, page 3

Horses are just men extenders.

I can't even beach here!

I'm just Ken and I'm enough. And I'm great at doing stuff.

I'm not smart enough to be interesting. I can't do brain surgery. I've never flown a plane. I'm not the President. No one on the Supreme Court is me. I'm not good enough for anything.

I'm  just Ken
Anywhere else,  I'd be a ten
Is it my destiny to live and die a life of blond fragility?

If I wasn't severely injured, I would beach you off right now, Ken.

It is the best day ever — and so is yesterday, and so is tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and even Wednesdays, and every day from now until forever!

Gloria

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 have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people. You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining. You're supposed to stay pretty for men but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood. But always stand out and always be very grateful, but never forget the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but also always be grateful. 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! And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault. I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know.

CEO of Mattel

Listen, I know exactly where you're going with this, and I have to say I really resent it. We are a company literally made of women. We had a woman CEO in the '90s. And there was another one... at some other time. So that's... That's two right there. Women are the freaking foundation of this very long phallic building. We have gender-neutral bathrooms up the wazoo. Every single one of these men love women. I'm the son of a mother. I'm the mother of a son. I'm... I'm the nephew of a woman aunt. Some of my best friends are Jewish.

CEO of Mattel

No one rests until this doll is back in a box!

Narrator

Note to the filmmakers: Margot Robbie is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point.

She thinks I'm a fascist? I don't control the railways or the flow of commerce!

Shredding waves is much more dangerous than people realize.

Narrator

Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls. But the dolls were always and forever baby dolls. The girls who played with them could only ever play at being mothers. Which can be fun, at least for a while, anyway. Ask your mother. This continued until...

Some things have been happening that might be related. Cold shower. Falling off my roof. And my heels are on the ground.