Sentences with phrase «of girlhood»

She worked hard, taking a bus to the tobacco fields outside Hartford, working the fields in a strange mix of life that touched both the memories of her girlhood in Georgia and the realities of ghetto life in the Northeast.

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.

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

Collins presents So Sad Today Series, a group of large - scale photographs of young women in states of sadness and distress, in an embrace and celebration of the complex reality of girlhood.

Abercrombie lives alone in the River Oaks section of Houston, the opulent neighborhood of her girlhood, where ersatz Spanish abuts ersatz Colonial abuts ersatz Bauhaus.

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?

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.

«I assure you I put away the fripperies of girlhood some years ago,» said Beatrice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Her work, described by i - D Magazine as «cutesy kitsch meets dark gothic underworld,» deals with reclaiming the tools of oppression, the plight of girlhood, violence, alienation, women's work, witchcraft, and the emotion that teeters on the edge of repulsion and intrigue.

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.

The realm of Rawlings» visual pursuits is in large part focused on the subject of girlhood or womanhood.

Symbols within these paintings create a syntax of girlhood, existing between having a crush and a well - meaning love obsession.

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.

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.

These configurations reinforce narrow, profoundly racist and classist, confines to categories, confirming the monstrosity of those who can not easily fit within available categories of girlhood, and sustaining the illegibility of adolescent girls» agencies.

It always transports me to fond memories of my girlhood Thank goodness for bead board wallpaper and fresh coats of paint Love how this armoire turned out!

What wonderful memories of girlhood Christmases.

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.

With this body of work, Collins» art practice continues to make space for the young female experience by embracing the historically marginalized subject matter of the complex reality of girlhood.

What I have realized is that some of my girlhood dreams would never bring happiness (like the ones of owning furs and diamonds).

I'm pretty excited today guys, because all of my girlhood dreams of hosting my own home show are being realized... kind of.