Reading America Ferrera's 'Barbie' Monologue Will Make You Feel Things

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Spoiler warning for the Barbie movie!Feel like you're failing at basic womanhood? Every day, same. Unfortunately, nobody has managed to fix patriarchy yet, but at least from Barbie, the one that starts, “It is literally impossible to be a woman,” may make you feel less alone.

Ferrera's character, Gloria, gives this speech to Barbie when feels like she's doing anything right.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.As published in the , the monologue goes thusly: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.