Fascism germinates through the exploitation of women, obsessing over defining our appropriate role in the world. This period of hyper-capitalism has been violently pulling women between destinies: to be or not to be a mother, to have or not to have a career. The woman is constantly burdened by her choice because the empowered woman must have it all. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie hit a pain point when it put on the big screen the contradictory, impossible expectations women constantly need to work to meet. In the backdrop of the film’s production was a pandemic that intensified a festering by-product of the modern world: that women’s dignity is conditional on their labor, making a cage of motherhood and livelihood. Co-opted by capitalism, so much of the narrative of women’s right to work has focused on what can be extracted from women, dislodging feminism’s true core: the inherent dignity, the power to decide what matters. Contrary to the demand that women prove their worth through constant labor, rest offers more than reprieve — it provides the radical right to decide what to make of one’s singular life.