--- description: In Greta Gerwig's film adaptation, passionate aspiring author Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) delivers a performance that scored her an Oscar nod title: Little Women Has Produced an Absolutely Perfect Meme For All the Things Everyone Simply Can't Do image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdafe2557b10afe8b/698a0a5b86f68e18d06ee5c2/little-women.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Little Women_ Has Produced the Perfect Meme For All the Things Everyone Simply Can't Do by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 12, 2023 7:30 PM CUTPublished: Feb 18, 2020 2:46 PM CUT  Saoirse Ronan as Jo and Timothee Chalamet as Laurie in Little Women. Saoirse Ronan as Jo and Timothee Chalamet as Laurie in Little Women.Columbia Pictures by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 12, 2023 7:30 PM CUTPublished: Feb 18, 2020 2:46 PM CUT Greta Gerwig’s [_Little Women_](https://time.com/5754484/little-women-review/ "undefined") is once again the talk of Twitter, and on this occasion because it has produced a very good [meme](https://time.com/5746384/marriage-story-memes/ "undefined") for expressing, well, the postmodern mess that is doing stuff — or not doing stuff, specifically, because you just _can’t._ Given its universal appeal, the meme has spread far and wide across Twitter, with speed comparable to that tragic scarlet fever outbreak in the original novel. In the critical darling of a [film](https://time.com/5272624/little-women-history-real/ "undefined"), a modern adaptation of the 1868 Louisa May Alcott classic, passionate aspiring author Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) delivers a performance that scored her an Oscar nod. Case in point: this intense moment showcasing her essentially cutting local heartthrob Laurie (Timothée Chalamet) out of her life like yesterday’s bonnet. (Spoiler alert: he says he wants to marry her, to which she essentially says “bye.” And she rejects his proposal for marriage because she values her liberty too much.) We have to be able to laugh at the hard times, after all. And in that spirit, Twitter users have been captioning a clip of the rejection to make the case that try as they might, they simply can’t, say, stop Instagram stalking that ex, write a sentence without an em dash or fill the dishwasher before going to bed because there’s just too many (three) dirty dishes in the sink. Try as you might to escape the memes, you simply can’t do that either. There’s just so much we’re incapable of doing too, Jo March. Watching prequels, abstaining from em dashes or Twitter, or frying a sunny side up egg. What do they have in common? They’re all impossible things. Enjoy the best _Little Women_ can’t memes below. > [](https://twitter.com/katie%5Fk%5Frogers/status/1229980846804754434) > [](https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/1230143850632679426) > [](https://twitter.com/davejorgenson/status/1229481377462091776) > [](https://twitter.com/nicolemichele5/status/1229411092335669249) > [](https://twitter.com/danadonly/status/1229473305599438848) > [](https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/1229522596758085632) > [](https://twitter.com/cerseironan/status/1229346433460867073) > [](https://twitter.com/cccamilleamanda/status/1229710140284100608) > [](https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1229614023714447360) Things even got very meta, because they could. Even though they can’t: > [](https://twitter.com/ALTibbits/status/1229510327420669952) > [](https://twitter.com/eyesvvideshut/status/1229132132888477698) Someone couldn’t resist an attempt to flip the script. > [](https://twitter.com/bobbyfinger/status/1229614963943256064) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5785708/best-little-women-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5785708/best-little-women-memes/"},"headline":"Little Women Has Produced the Perfect Meme For All the Things Everyone Simply Can't Do","datePublished":"2020-02-18T14:46:25.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T19:30:50.000Z","description":"In Greta Gerwig's film adaptation, passionate aspiring author Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) delivers a performance that scored her an Oscar nod","url":"https://time.com/5785708/best-little-women-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","onetime","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdafe2557b10afe8b/698a0a5b86f68e18d06ee5c2/little-women.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdafe2557b10afe8b/698a0a5b86f68e18d06ee5c2/little-women.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"little-women","caption":"little-women","creditText":"Columbia Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5785708/best-little-women-memes/","name":"Little Women Has Produced the Perfect Meme For All the Things Everyone Simply Can't Do"}}]}] ```