Sentences with phrase «from girlhood»

The artist is perhaps best known for her series, The Adventures of Guile and Belinda, which follows a pair of cousins through their shared moments of expectation, fear, and anticipation as they transition, physically and psychologically, from girlhood to motherhood.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Depicting transitional moments of life, from young girlhood to middle age, Matar's works address personal and collective identity through photographs mining female adolescence and womanhood.

The round walnut coffee table is a hand - me - down freebie — it's the kitchen table from Mary Kay's girlhood home cut down to 21 inches tall.