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“When we visited the Louvre, we entered the Mona Lisa room and found a crowd of hundreds pushing, jostling, selfie-ing all around her. I stared from a distance trying to appreciate her. I really didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. I wondered if all the jostling people understood or if they were just acting like they did.

A woman walked over and stood next to me. She said, ‘You know there’s a theory about her smile. Want to hear it?’

‘Yes, please,’ I said.

Mona Lisa and her husband lost a baby. Sometime later her husband commissioned this painting from DaVinci to celebrate the birth of another baby. Mona Lisa sat for Leonardo to paint her, but she wouldn’t smile during the sitting—not all the way.

The story goes that DaVinci wanted her to smile wider but she refused. She did not want the joy she felt for her new baby to erase the pain she felt from losing the first.

There in her half-smile is her half joy. Or maybe it’s her full joy and her full grief all at the same time.

She has the look of a woman who has just realized a dream but still carries the lost dream inside her.

She wanted her whole life to be present on her face. She wanted everyone to remember so she wouldn’t pretend.

Now I understand what the fuss is all about. Mona Lisa is the patron saint of honest, resolute, fully human women—women who feel and who know. She is saying for us, ‘Don’t tell me to smile. I will not be pleasant. Even trapped here inside two dimensions you will see the truth. You will see my life’s brutal and beautiful right here on my face. The world will not be able to stop staring.’”

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed