“So many movies and stories give us characters who are either too
glamorous or too terrible to relate to. So many heroes have bravery and
grit that seem too challenging for us to muster. But in Gerwig’s Little Women,
Jo March was the kind of brave hero that I needed, the kind of hero
marketers didn’t initially want me to see.
So yes, Jo March: women have
minds and hearts, dreams and hopes. We have ambition and independence,
beauty and talent. We are feminists that demand and deserve respect. But
we’ve got hearts that long with loneliness, too. It’s not wrong to feel
lonely even when you’re lucky, and it’s not wrong to have needs. It’s
human.”
- Little Women and the Truth We’re Too Scared to Say
