Sentences with phrase «as a young girl growing»

New York City About Blog Danielle Holke is a long - time knitter, first taught by her beloved grandmother as a young girl growing up in Canada.

As a young girl growing up, she was never really sure of what was real when the lights went out at night.

New York City About Blog Danielle Holke is a long - time knitter, first taught by her beloved grandmother as a young girl growing up in Canada.

Nosizwe Solwandle's (nee Mdingi's) journey from life as a young girl growing up in a rural village in the Eastern Cape (EC), to her current position as an independent, single mom and the proud owner of three investment properties in the Cape Town area is an inspiring one to say the least.

Not exact matches

They're still young (8, 6, and 4), but I figure that I better get a head start right now on learning about the issues and problems that growing girls face, and how, as a father, I might be able to help.

As a young girl in the 1980s, I grew up knowing I could soar into space or serve on the Supreme Court or run for Vice-President.

Just imagine what a painful experience that must have been for young women who had been socialized for domesticity, girls who had grown up in the 1950s to expect life as it was portrayed in the Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping.

As a young girl, one of my favorite things to do was help my grandmother plant her garden in the spring, watch the seedlings grow and then pick fresh produce to create flavorful meals.

But also, as a member of one few draft classes that grew up with a mainstream WNBA, she knows how important her celebrity is for the young girls who will follow.

Growing up as a young girl I remember my mother telling me how much she loved breastfeeding.

What I did was post on Kijiji looking for a young girl who would take the huge pile of out - grown clothing of my daughter's (instead of consignment which was the plan) as well as some books, small toys (some still unopened) and our old, yet still perfect, table top Christmas tree.

«He should step aside & let someone take his spot on the ballot who doesn't prey upon young teenage girls as a grown man.»

I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for your love and grace that you showed me not only when I was a little girl but even as I have grown into a beautiful young woman.

Tully and Kate meet as young girls in the 70s and we follow them as they grow up, go off to college and into the world as working women in the 90s.

She's someone who probably wanted to be a boy as a young girl but grew out of it to loving her female body and how it feels to connect to a woman as a woman.

Cool young girls will love this — as will grown - ups wise enough to absorb the truth of the wise women's movement slogan» The personal is political.»

A coming - of - age story with a difference, Persepolis follows Marjane as she grows from a feisty, Bruce Lee - loving little girl living in Iran at the time of the Islamic Revolution to a disaffected outsider (first in Austria and then back in the country of her birth), to a young woman who knows too well that freedom and adulthood have their price.

The film stars Brooklynn Kimberly Prince as Moonee, a young girl growing up in a motel near Disney World in Florida.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The girl is Nasia (Candace Evanofski), already rabidly boy - crazy though barely a teen, and she is prone to deep rumination about not just the cute young guys in her working - class North Carolina town but about everyone else as well: «The grown - ups in my town, they were never kids like me and my friends.»

Working with the police department, Patrick and Angie find few leads, and as the days go by, they grow increasingly uneasy at the prospects of getting back the young girl.

This is a movie about a young girl who wants to get as far as she can from her stifling hometown, but the film itself makes it look like a nice place to grow up.

The two girls are best friends, who find themselves growing apart as they approach young adulthood, with Ginger (played by Elle Fanning) getting involved with leftist politics, while Rosa (Alice Englert) starts looking for a man to settle down with.

Set around the holidays, it stars Anna Kendrick as a young woman who, after breaking up with her boyfriend, moves in with her brother (Swanberg), his wife (Melanie Lynskey, who starred in 2012's «Hello I Must Be Going,» another Sundance film about a girl who gets dumped, goes home and grows up) and their two - year - old son.

As our story begins, a young girl is discovered growing in a tree by a bamboo - cutter, who decides to name her Kaguya and raise her as his own child with his wife, and eventually makes her become a princess, at which point her supernatural beginnings come back to haunt heAs our story begins, a young girl is discovered growing in a tree by a bamboo - cutter, who decides to name her Kaguya and raise her as his own child with his wife, and eventually makes her become a princess, at which point her supernatural beginnings come back to haunt heas his own child with his wife, and eventually makes her become a princess, at which point her supernatural beginnings come back to haunt her.

The tale of Caesar — a bright young chimpanzee subjected to freewheeling medical experimentation, who grows up to become an ape - separatist revolutionary — was packaged in a bland Hollywood wrapper, as a love story between a lab scientist and his assistant (played by James Franco and then - it girl Freida Pinto, respectively).

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) plays Cooper, a former NASA pilot who know farms corn and does his best to raise two kids: an older boy, Tom — who will be played as an adult by Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone)-- and a younger girl, Murphy (or Murph) who will grow up first to be (disappointingly), the lightweight Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and then (less disappointingly) Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream).

Her Eilish grows from a homesick girl into an intelligent young woman with a complex inner life, a radiant vitality, and grace to spare as she figures out who she is and what she wants, without ever losing her dignity or her sense of self.

Taylor Kitsch (John Carter) and Aaron Taylor - Johnson (Kick - Ass) star as Chon and Ben, two young drug dealers whose life in the Californian sun is completed by Blake Lively's (The Town) free - wheeling O, a girl who's never too far away from a bikini and whose open relationship with the pot - growing surfer bros makes for the most curious of sun - kissed twentysomething existences.

As Joe grows from an innocent young girl who expresses herself through sex without giving it much thought, into a woman who has to cope with motherhood and battle her condition both internally and externally, the progression from light to darkness is only natural.

Oliver enters into an awkward romance with a young girl friend (Esther Garrel) even as he and Oliver are growing close.

As a young girl migrating from China to Australia, Han relied on children's books to learn English and they remained a passion as she grew uAs a young girl migrating from China to Australia, Han relied on children's books to learn English and they remained a passion as she grew uas she grew up.

Karen Wunderman's first book Winterkill is a beautifully written coming of age story about a young girl growing up and coming to terms with her father's past which threatens to not only destroy her father but her family as well.

We are accustomed to hearing major headlines and then letting the aftermaths of news stories fade away — but here we are taken inside a girl / young woman's life as she deals with the aftermath of a serious trauma, and as she learns and grows through the new challenges that life throws her way.

As the girls grow up, Seena escapes by burying herself in her books to avoid the raw truths that surround her, including her favoritism of youngest daughter Amaryllis (nicknamed Yllis).

I thought... as a young girl I would surely grow up to become a great writer, my parents had other things in mind for me... so, I became a teacher, still love to write, and books are my best friends.

As a young girl she developed a passion for the profession that has only grown stronger over the years.

As an artist who «grew up on the internet,» Cortright carefully erects and investigates online trends of personhood as they appear in the culture, from the front - facing camera antics of solipsistic young girls on social media to virtual stripperAs an artist who «grew up on the internet,» Cortright carefully erects and investigates online trends of personhood as they appear in the culture, from the front - facing camera antics of solipsistic young girls on social media to virtual stripperas they appear in the culture, from the front - facing camera antics of solipsistic young girls on social media to virtual strippers.

She was born and grew up in Shanghai where she practiced Chinese calligraphy as a young girl.

What started as a small beauty blog, road2beauty is slowly growing into a large community of girls and women with only one goal — to look young and attractive no matter what the age.

My kids are grown up now, but when they were young (girl and boy) I always tried to make what was ever important to them as imporant to me so they seemed to feel that security that they could tell me anything.

Growing up in the South with a dutch door, as a young girl I could not wait until I was tall enough to look out of the top half of the door.