“That’s what life is like: it’s never black and white. I think so often drama sort of glosses over the difficulty of these situations." - Gugu Mbatha-Raw

"The question with beauty pageants is what your background is, what your motivation is and whether that can represent freedom for you or others, or represent a stepping stone to a bigger life.”

You can't really underestimate the power of that to make people feel less alone or to help in the healing process.

There's a long way to go before we have complete equality and we need films like this to push us along and to remind us of the legacy of the women who came before us. Hopefully, it will inspire young women to keep fighting for a better future.