There is a certain dialogue concerning little girls

It tells them

You can always stand up for what you believe in

but don’t stand that tall.

You should never fear speaking your mind

unless your mind is speaking what we fear.

You hold the power to change the world

but only how we see fit.

You see,

Little girls are not meant to have big mouths

Little girls are supposed to wear frilly pink dresses and heels

Little girls are supposed to like finger painting and story time

Little girls are supposed to cover up, shut up, and look up

to the men that rule their worlds.

And when little girls grow up, the dialogue stays the same.

This time it’s

You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up

but you’ll get paid less for doing it.

You now have legal protection against attackers

but you surely provoked them anyways.

You probably can’t change the world,

but we’ll enjoy watching you try.

You see,

There’s this idea people have about girls,

They think we’re little.

They think because our bodies are smaller it means our brains are too

That we’re not as strong

Or as brave

Or as smart

But let me tell you something

Little girls, we’re a force of nature

We hold the key to the universe in our frilly pink pockets

can stomp the whole patriarchy tap-dancing in our heels

paint entire galaxies with nothing but our fingertips

tell stories of other little girls

with big mouths

like ours

Little girls with big mouths, changing the dialogue

of the world