Can I just, say something crazy?  Anna displays feminist qualities that are just as impactful as Elsa’s.

Anna demonstrates the all too familiar narrative of giving away all of ourselves to the first boy that shows interest.  If you can’t relate to that, you will.  Or you have some super powers.  But what matters about this situation is how we respond once that boy inevitably breaks our hearts.  Anna chose love.  Powerful, selfless, love.  And so should we.

Anna was so desperate for any kind of love, even the fake kind she imagined in her head, because all her life the door to love kept slamming in her face.  All the people who she loved the most, kept leaving her alone and literally shutting her out.  So when crazy Hans shows up, and she gives in so quickly, we understand.

Her excitement drowns her poor decision making, which is normally how it goes.  And, conveniently, there aren’t any obvious hints that Hans sucks.  When he leaves her to freeze, she could easily choose to let her heart freeze over and not be hurt by a rejected love ever again.  I think that a lot of breakups feel like that.  So, look to how

Anna gracefully grows and moves past her pain, and chooses to fight for the love she knows she deserves.

Anna teaches us three powerful lessons about love:

Don’t accept the first love that comes along (unless of course it’s right for you). Love will come when it comes. Boys will come and go, but your heart is too valuable to just give away to anyone that comes along. Be protective. Don’t build an ice palace to lock people out, but don’t open every single door either.

Patiently wait to get what you deserve. This may mean love for you, or for anything that you’re working towards. I struggle to accept that success takes time, but we all know its true. What’s meant for you will not pass you.

We must always choose to protect our sisters before random misters!! Both sisters continuously claim they don’t need to be protected, but that’s just not true. Sometimes we need to be protected from the wrong guy, or even ourselves, but we must protect and love and support our fellow sisters. Girl power is a force stronger than even ice powers, if we learn to use it well.

So maybe Elsa was right, and you can’t marry a man you just met. But Anna’s belief in true love is not wrong either. We all have a boy or a choice we’d like to forget. Those are things that build us, not like a snowman, but into a stronger, more compassionate woman. They lead us to the truest love: a love of ourselves. Anna shows that even if we were once too naive to know better, that doesn’t mean we can’t let life teach us how to grow up. We can grow with it, and learn to love a little more powerfully as we go. Then we can truly know the kind of love worth melting for.