Sentences with phrase «told by older women»

Told by older women.

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That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

The old woman tells us it was given to her by a relative over near Rosebud, 50 miles east.

Set in the Holy Land in the first century, it tells the story of a young woman joining a new social movement led by Jesus of Nazareth - and the 43 - year - old portrays the Messiah himself.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

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Alas, I have been robbed of the ability to be the first person to tell Sheldon Sparks to shut up, because after he took to their local Facebook group to complain, he was astonished to be told to shut up by hundreds of other local women, who pointed out that five - week - old babies can't exactly go to the park and ride the slide or enjoy a nice game of kickball.

By this point, most everyone is aware that breastfeeding is better, but that has somewhat created a defensiveness in people who do / did NOT breastfeed, especially older women from the generation whose doctors told them to use formula.

I've seen women told «He'll latch when he's hungry enough», I saw an 18 year old sobbing in agony for 48 hours, nipples cracked and bleeding from baby's odd latch, being told she was a «Silly little girl», and «a lazy mother» because she wanted to rest her breasts by using formula for one night.

I have seen babies who are upset every time they go near a breast because they have been handled roughly by hospital staff (mothers» breasts have been grabbed and their baby's head shoved onto a breast); I have seen women who have been told they don't have enough milk or «your milk isn't strong enough» (this is never true and usually comes from an older relative who may have been told this a generation ago); women who have been advised to give their babies a top - up bottle only to have the baby find the fast milk flow easier than working at the breast so consequently, weaning begins before breastfeeding even becomes established.

Dawn Holland, a woman living in Georgia was enjoying a meal at an Applebees (and breastfeeding her 20 - month - old son) when she was approached by a restaurant manager who told her to either stop breastfeeding or go to the bathroom to do it (or leave the restaurant).

A 28 yr old male I saw recently with athlete's foot, jock itch, chronic digestive complaints was told by his doctor that males don't get candida infections, and he was asked «if he had a vagina, because only women suffer from yeast infections».

FOOEY on that, but I told Myrna and she helps me out by telling him that she has different mid-West DNA, while my DNA come's from the old country where women were viewed more highly if they had large tuchuses.

I bought latex paint with primer like i was told by a woman who repaints old furniture.

What's more, the way in which news outlets around the world, Newsweek included, represented the issue is perhaps more telling of the way older women are perceived by society.

If you have any doubt whether this person is a scammer or not, I need to tell you that whilst you may have heard about «Russian women scammers» or «Russian brides scammers», most Russian bride scams are run by men, who write letters, gather photos and arrange people to receive funds in Western Union - and the women receiving the money are NOT the pretty women in the photos; they are usually old and unattractive, and they are certainly NOT the women who you are supposedly corresponding with.

Our statistic system tells that older - women - dating - younger - men is visited by approximately 1114 visitors mountly, 38 daily.

In our culture, dating an older partner is often seen as a status symbol for younger women — we're often told that older partners will be more financially and emotionally stable, which is why being courted by an older partner is often seen as a compliment, a confirmation that you, indeed, have your act together and are desirable.

A man tells a woman and another man at dinner that on the road after a nuclear event, he met a sick 13 - year - old boy who pointed a knife at him and then begged him to shoot and kill him; the man says he left the boy by the side of the road to die and he later tells the woman that the boy may have been her brother (she cries, but forgives the man).

Christopher Reeve (Superman, The Remains of the Day) stars as playwright Richard Collier, who is visited as a college student by a strange old woman telling him to come back to her, giving him an antique time piece.

It's a good year for women in musicals, in fact: new shows to get excited by include Miss Littlewood, about badass theatre maverick Joan Littlewood, which is by Sam Kenyon at the RSC from 22 June, and Sylvia, a hip - hop telling of Sylvia Pankhurst and the suffragette movement by Zoo Nation's Kate Prince, at the Old Vic from 1 September.

Though the movie is about a woman (Brie Larson) who's been held captive for years, the story is mostly told from the perspective of her son, played by Tremblay, who's 8 years old.

Synopsis: Nymphomaniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman's erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self - diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe.On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman, finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway.

(For example, even the incredibly wise Sarah Polley, who made this weekend's wonderful; Stories We Tell, conceded at a Q&A for the film that she hadn't even noticed her lead female characters are defined by their relationships with their male partners, as pointed out by an older woman in her audience.)

While sleeping there they are visited by a woman in white who proceeds to kill the older man with her icy breath, but spares the young boy with the warning that he must tell no one of what he has seen.

Set just after the Civil War, a time that recalls her luminous debut, Enemy Women (2002), this slim, spare book tells the story of an unlikely bond that grows between a 10 - year - old girl who had been captured by the Kiowa tribe that killed her family, and the grizzled army captain who is sent to escort her home.

Brenda Martin, a small white woman, bruised, shock - strained, tells police that she was carjacked near the projects by a black man then adds that her four - year - old boy was asleep in the back seat.

My award - winner, Star Gazing, is a last - chance - saloon love story, but it's told by a 45 - year old blind woman from her blind «point of view».

Today the woman told me my application for a repayment plan is expired but I don't have to do a new one, because it's not that old, so she's going to «expedite» it, and it should be «done by next month.»

I bought latex paint with primer like i was told by a woman who repaints old furniture.