Q: There’s been some criticism that [Beauty and the Beast] is like a women in an abusive relationship, ‘I can save him.’ What do you say to that type of concern that it suggests to girls to stick to that abusive boyfriend if you can fix him?
↳ [1/100] Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson: “Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don’t ostracize the gender in front of you.”
A right that will be respected by a community that believes and supports survivors.
Feminism is not here to dictate to you, it’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for prime minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next: these things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about… We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop. Women should feel free.
Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
If he could learn to love another and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fell, the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?
Beauty and the Beast (2017) dir. Bill Condon
If he could learn to love another and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fell, the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?
Beauty and the Beast (2017) dir. Bill Condon