Sentences with phrase «entire generation of women»

«My friends, she won't just shatter the glass ceiling for my daughters and your daughters, and provide a new role model for an entire generation of women.

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The steps we've taken give me great hope for my daughter, Olive, and an entire next generation of powerful women.»

They spoke with men, women and children returning to their communities following two decades of war — the lifespan of an entire generation.

Laurie Metcalf sees a new strength and savviness in the younger generation of actresses in dealing with these situations, and Holly Hunter gives a shout to social media for enabling the entire movement of women and men telling their stories.

Surprisingly, it helped her, although she was continents and generations apart, in a world whose values must have been unimaginable to a woman who had been married at sixteen and widowed at twenty - four, and who had only left Calcutta once in her entire life for a pilgrimage to Badrinath with the members of her Geeta group.

But in Royes» sequel to The Goat Woman from Largo Bay, that undercurrent of hatred and violence threatens to destroy the entire town as the people seem bent on practicing generations» - old intolerance and brutality rather than put aside their prejudices to rebuild the struggling town's tourism economy.

Medical science and governments around the world scramble in an effort to solve the problem, but twenty - five years later there is no cure, and an entire generation grows up with a population of fewer than a thousand women.

SARGENT: One of the things that's interesting about this idea of remembrance, particularly in the time that you detail in your books — The Women, White Girls, and the forthcoming Alice Neel, Uptown — in different ways, is what AIDS did to an entire generation of people.

Hickey, writing beautifully in 25 Women: Essays on Their Work, says of Heilmann that among the entire generation of artists who embarked on second acts in their careers following AIDS, the shooting of Andy Warhol, and seismic shifts in the New York art world, «Mary Heilmann's has to have been the bravest and most subversive, the one that actually raises the bar.»

Through her teaching posts she has influenced an entire generation of contemporary British artists, and in her career as a practitioner, Chadwick is recognised as one of the first women artists to be nominated for the Turner Prize.

He has described these new works as an homage to women from Africa who «look to the future, thinking about their children» — watching as entire generation of young adults leave the continent in search of opportunity, only too aware of the precarity of the journey to come.