Sentences with word «girlhood»

Discerning visitors to the MFA, Boston, likely made a connection between the scenes of girlhood in the dark interiors of Chase's Hide and Seek (1888; The Phillips Collection) and Sargent's Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), stationed a floor above.

Then I remembered «Lark Rise to Candleford», (HT Frances), a memoir of 19th century girlhood in a poor English village.

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.

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.

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

She recalls her Catholic girlhood with a shudder.

Writer - director Greta 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.

Worse, she learns her beloved ninety - year - old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she's been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.

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.

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

My liberal Catholic girlhood and liberal Protestant adult life were similarly sheltered.

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.

Exploring both personal and collective memories of black girlhood, the labyrinth reflects Stingily's poignant, referential found objects and architectural forms, which she compares with political and cultural threat.

Spoken of mostly in terms of the low - budget phantasmagorical centuries - and - gender traipsing «Orlando» (1992), which brought Derek Jarman's friend and icon Tilda Swinton to a larger sphere, Potter's filmography has been both esthetically and fiscally elastic, primal yet lovingly detailed, containing sly, minimalist teenage girlhood stories like «Ginger & Rosa» (2012) and the no - budget, shot - for - internet, pocket - sized fashion «Rage» (2009).

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

There on my lap, she felt like my baby while in new, startling ways each day, she proves her independence here in her official little girlhood.

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?

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.

This floral print babydoll dress was the perfect ode to summer time girlhood and the pink messenger bag and purple Steve Madden sandals kept the palette very colorful, super girly and playful.

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.

Much of the film, which covers 40 years from 1889 to 1929, rests upon the considerable talents of the lovely Dunne, whose Sabra Cravat is followed from girlhood until she becomes a grand old woman of the West.

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.

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).

Luz panicked, shrieked, and executed a long - stride slo - mo kick of unexpected grace and force, some long - lost AYSO girlhood reflex risen from the resin of her quads.

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.

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

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

Memories forever.Embrace girlhood and celebrate your favorite young lady by taking her on an adventure to remember.

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.

A new exhibition of the artist's work features more than 50 collages, paintings and hand - painted serigraphs considering girlhood, self - image and the dysfunctional legacy of colorism.

Ms. Weil had been making photograms since her precocious girlhood, and she mentioned how annoying it is to find herself described in articles as «Bob's helper.»

The hopes, frustrations and perilous potentials of African - American girlhood provide the subject matter for Deborah Roberts» new series of 14 collages.

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.

Dingle began a critique of girlhood innocence with a character based on Dingle's niece, Wadow, who exhibited surprising violent bursts as a result of prenatal brain damage.

Dolls supplement girlhood through fun, enchanting play, where the power of youth and the inimitable innocence is affirmed as totally unique.

The press release for Dr. Guttman's Office announces itself with a short story illustrating the fears desires and anxieties of girlhood via a drawing and a visit to the a therapist.

What wonderful memories of girlhood Christmases.

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 lumpy, post-Telltale adventure game became a syncretic whirlwind, refracting teenage girlhood through everything from Twin Peaks to Hideo Kojima.

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.

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.

He is currently writing Obscene Material, a book examining black girlhood and scandal in 1919 Washington, D.C.