Happy birthday,Legally Blonde!
To celebrate, let’sreminisceabout some of Elle’s finest moments.
The woman is a true role model, and she’s never afraid to tell it like it is.
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Below, a few times in the film when she proudly spoke her truth.
“I don’t need back-ups.
I’m going to Harvard.”
“What, like it’s hard?”
High fives, girl.
“Whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed.”
No words have ever rung more true.
“I’ll show you how valuable Elle Woods can be.”
Why doesn’t that work in real life!?
“ME!!!”
Elle’sshameless reactionto finding out she got Callahan’s internship will never not be amazing.
She finally gets itshe’s capable of so much more than she ever dreamed!
(Does anybody else hear this moment in their heads whenever they get chosen for something they really wanted?
This is so much better than that!"
You tell him, girl!
“When used appropriately, it has an 83 percent rate of return on a dinner invitation.
It’s called the bend and snap.”
We didn’t know it then, but Elle was introducing a move that would shape an entire generation.
It was history in the making.
“Exercise gives you endorphins.
Endorphins make you happy.
Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands, they just don’t.”
An important lesson in both fitness and life!
“I can’t break the bonds of sisterhood.”
Now that’s some real friendship!
Elle’s cross-examinination of Chutney is a moment for the books.
You don’t need Warner for a single second.
BRB, shedding one solitary tear of empowerment.
Elle is never not an inspiration.
