Though at times preach-y and hyper-idealistic, a memorable anthem for women everywhere breaking barriers and taking names.
“Mona Lisa is the patron saint of honest, resolute, fully human women- women who feel and who know. She is saying for us: Don’t tell me to smile. I will not be pleasant. Even trapped here, inside two dimensions, you will see the truth. You will see my life’s brutal and beautiful right here on my face. The world will not be able to stop staring.”
“I have been conditioned to mistrust and dislike strong, confident, happy girls and women. We all have. Studies prove that the more powerful, successful, and happy a man becomes, the more people trust and like him. But the more powerful and happy a woman becomes, the less people like and trust her. So we proclaim: ‘Women are entitled to take their rightful place!’ Then, when a woman does take her rightful place, our first reaction is ‘She’s so…entitled’.
Carissa W Tomas, PhD 