Sentences with phrase «forever.embrace girlhood»

At one point in my life, I had a girlhood dream of being a professional dancer.

She recalls her Catholic girlhood with a shudder.

A girlhood must.

I grew up and navigated girlhood with Jane Stuart, Sara Stanley, Valancey Stirling, Aunt Becky, Emily Starr, and of course Anne.

Over and over throughout my childhood and girlhood, my parents intentionally empowered us to be in charge of our own lives.

The wildly reworked story of the aptly named Tangled «gets strained through a sieve of political correctness that includes condescending to fashionable notions about girlhood, patriarchy, romance, and what is now the most suspicious of cultural tenets: faith.»

The author shares vivid recollections of experiences in Vacation Bible School and Sunday School from her girlhood in a Methodist church.

To give them examples of the finest types of boyhood and girlhood....

-LSB-...] I said in my post on the pinkification of girlhood, it isn't one image, one toy, or one experience that is the problem.

I think it is important to help our daughters transition from girlhood into confident, self - assured women in their own time, not at a pace dictated by the media.

For years, whenever the 50 - year - old Belizean immigrant walked by, she recalled her girlhood dream of becoming a hairdresser.

Because in one horrific, heated moment, a girl barely out of girlhood committed an act that would accidentally end a baby's life and perhaps ruin her own?

Moms are trying valiantly to blunt the thorns of 21st century girlhood — dubious celebrity role models and cyberbullies among them.

Trained as a physician, Kirschstein attributed her early interest in scientific research, a filmed interview indicates, in part to a serious illness her mother suffered during Kirschstein's girlhood.

Dr. Brisendine explains that after girlhood, because of hormone fluctuations that continue until after menopause, the female brain actually changes daily, monthly and over a woman's life time.

However, a glimpse of other girls practicing hip - hop dance moves in another part of the building entirely beguiles Toni, and she joins up and dives in, learning in the process not just different physical skills but the mysterious ways of adolescent girlhood.

Thoughtful and generous, it's that rare ensemble film that gives its side characters enough room to breathe and grow: Two romantic interests — played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me by Your Name's Timothée Chalamet, both superb — as well as an upbeat nun (the legendary Lois Smith) stand out in this loving ode to mothers, daughters and the girlhood towns we never fully leave behind.

Thoughtful and generous, it's that rare ensemble film that gives its side characters enough room to breathe and grow: Two romantic interests — played by Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet, both superb — as well as an upbeat nun (the legendary Lois Smith) stand out in this loving ode to mothers, daughters and the girlhood towns we never fully leave behind.

Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera's script gives the big, dumb physical gags to Sandler and the boys, but mines some real poignancy, even some melancholy, from Lauren's kindly introduction to Larry into the ways of girlhood and from Espn's insistence that she can see her dead mother everywhere.

Brooklyn seemed to usher Ronan fully into adulthood, but here she gracefully pinwheels backward into youth, shifting constantly from self - conscious to stubborn to radiantly sincere — a whole teenage spectrum of traits, coexisting in one fully realized character, balanced precariously on the ledge between girlhood and womanhood.

A delightful debut that's all the more valuable for giving a voice to an underrepresented segment of the female Turkish population, Erguven's debut directorial feature (she has a few credits as an actor and a couple of short films prior to this) is a lovely story of spirited girlhood and rebellion.

Gerwig made the film as an act of love, not just toward her hometown of Sacramento but also toward girlhood, and toward the feeling of always being on the outside of wherever real life is happening.

There's never a dramatic revelation scene about Ronit and Esti's past, nor a detailed monologue or flashback explaining their girlhoods.

At its best, Dakota Johnson's acting reveals the restrictiveness of labels like «girlhood» and «womanhood».

Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen trace Ginsburg's life and career from girlhood through marriage and law school to her current position as perhaps America's least likely pop icon.

Next, I see Greta Gerwig's charming autobiographical take on her Sacramento girlhood, «Lady Bird,» starring the accomplished shape - shifter Saoirse Ronan, locked in almost - mortal combat with her mother (Laurie Metcalf).

Sofia Coppola emphasizes the female voice and representing the female experience and girlhood in an array of contexts — yet all quite similar, whether it be the loneliness and isolation of the Lisbon household, of Tokyo or the Palace of Versailles — it's enlightening to see on - screen.

Does Oscar contender Boyhood unintentionally highlight a girlhood problem?

Award - season favorite Boyhood by Richard Linklater has been taken to task for what it says about girlhood without exploring it further.

It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving re-encounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile.

When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty - year - old Ruby Bell finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood.

Although many elements - from her grandma's letters, to her mother's hopes, to her friends» expectations - help shape Rory's understanding of what it means to be a girl in her small community, one institution does more than any other to shape Rory's perception of American girlhood: the Girl Scouts of the USA.

I had a keen eye for beautiful things since girlhood, and I knew my faults.

Swing Time pairs humor and vibrant character with the melancholy of girlhood, of friendships that sour, of the search, in our adult lives, for the intensity of our earliest loves.

-- Atlanta Journal - Constitution «In her new southern memoir, Under Magnolia, Frances Mayes describes the birth of her extraordinary sensibility, the deep - pooled clarity of her writing, her giddy love of nature, and her sharp and satirical eye for those who brought her up to honorable womanhood in the tortured South of her girlhood.

It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood.

I agree with darylb that the description of girlhood and womanhood was the most memorable passage.

In the Classroom: Family Pictures / Cuadros de familia is the story of author and illustrator Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood in Kingsville, Texas: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, picking cactus, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist.

The tender and gorgeously illustrated manhwa trilogy (begun in The Color of Earth and The Color of Water, both 2009) honoring the artist's mother as she travels from childhood through girlhood to her status as a newlywed young woman comes to a successful close in this volume.

At 16, Esme realizes that «the transition from girlhood to womanhood turned on a pivot.

Set in Northern California in the late 1960s, it explores the complexities of girlhood through an arresting coming - of - age story inspired by Charles Manson's female followers.

The mother is Nina Simone, talking about her own girlhood and the discrimination she faced as she came into her own and discovered her love of music.

Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.

For these writers, it's as if girlhood were a cold case, tantalizingly unsolved.»

Her surviving sisters love to gab about their girlhood, while her eldest, Cassandra, calls every morning to preach the gospel of assisted living.

In her charming memoir, British novelist Margaret Drabble provides a look at her remarkable past while documenting the evolution of the jigsaw puzzle, a source of challenge and amusement that has figured prominently in her life since girlhood.

The story of her difficult girlhood and independent life as a working gal taking flying lessons will particularly intrigue YAs.

I felt like a figurine, the spindly ballerina in my girlhood jewelry box.

The little Negro school in your rural Virginia neighborhood only went up to sixth grade andyou wanted to go to seventh; just like that, you willed yourself to D.C., leaving your girlhood behind.

Embrace girlhood and experience a day of play, including interactive activities, crafts, swimming, wildlife exploration and more at Trailblazer's Kids Club, then take a trip to American Girl Scottsdale.