Sentences with phrase «girlhood in»

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

-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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 girlhooIn 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 girlhooin the tortured South of her girlhood.

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.

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.

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.

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 girlhooIn 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 girlhooin her life since girlhood.

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.

In her words she is: «examining selfie culture in teenage girlhood and the power for young women to create, curate, and distribute their own imagery.&raquIn her words she is: «examining selfie culture in teenage girlhood and the power for young women to create, curate, and distribute their own imagery.&raquin teenage girlhood and the power for young women to create, curate, and distribute their own imagery.»

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.»

Each painting in this exhibition explores a different facet of femininity and girlhood, and a different facet of every woman.

Her work revolves around notions of femininity; she carefully investigates the tropes of girlhood and middlebrow aesthetics that dominate western culture, be it young - girl Instagram profiles, or as in her latest solo show, Destruction of Experience at London's Evelyn Yard, the visual templates of self - help guides and corporate identity.