Sentences with phrase «stories about women because»

«They must find it hard to relate to stories about women because I can find no explanation why it isn't up for Best Picture this year,» she continues.

But I also wonder if horror is good at telling stories about women because horror, almost by definition, focuses on the vulnerability of its characters.

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He recounts a recent story about an elderly woman who had to interrupt a call to ScriptSave because her husband had suddenly taken a fall.

the New York newspaper asked, offering plenty of photos to help readers make up their own minds about the story of a woman fired from her job at Citibank because, she claimed, her managers and co-workers thought she was too attractive.

Julie - I was especially encouraged and thought of you while reading a particular passage because it is about the story of a woman who was assaulted and not believed... and then about the way that it was necessary for there to be a public forum where she could claim and own her experience.

In an interview in the Women «s Review of Books (March 1988), Morrison talks about the necessity of black people sharing the story of slavery rather than «rushing away... because it is painful to dwell there.»

This is why I found a recent essay by Tim Challies about the real fears women runners face because of the all - too - common stories of harassment to be so important.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

I think about how contests can unintentionally set the women and families viewing them up for disappointment, and potential postpartum mood disorders (postpartum depression) because they expected their birth stories to happen like the inspiring images they are consistently exposed to.

I'm sure they're much more likely to pick up stories about hospital birth because many more women choose this route.

Actually, most women choose homebirth because of all the «horror stories» that they hear about the hospitals / obs / doctors / nurses.

I write this to share my story about breastfeeding while pregnant, because so few women do.

They love those stories about [the] 90 - year - old woman using an iPad, because that's in some ways that's what Apple is about, is getting somebody who is completely averse to technology because it's too hard to try something, and go, «Oh, I understand how this work [s], I don't need to read a manual or have my grandson tell me how to do it, I can just pick it up and use it.»

Stories abound about women being refused maternity leave because their funding would run out before they returned.

All of which means that story number 2, about married women having less housework because their husband's help is TOTALL....

Apparently, being pregnant also makes you a prime candidate for hearing everyone else's birth story, because by time my due date rolled around in September, I had heard about episiotomies, c - sections, epidurals gone wrong, tearing, vomiting and every other birth complication from family, friends, and random women in the grocery store and library.

Then I realized I have to do another IVF round because if I want two kids, the two good - quality ones could only end up yielding one baby, and I keep hearing stories about all these women who keep implanting embryos and they don't take.

As a Matchmaker & Dating Coach, I can't tell you how many times I hear a story about a woman turning down a first date with a great guy, just because he's missing one thing or he has just one thing she's «iffy» about.

Spider - Man, famously, learns that with great power comes great responsibility, that just because you can use your power to do whatever you want, you probably shouldn't, and the best stories about Wonder Woman are often about how she uses her powers to attempt to inspire humanity to be its best self.

And this is significant because that's the goal, to see more women behind the camera, creating and advocating for content and stories that aren't just about men.

Whilst Jane Campion has a tradition of making films about women in a men's world, I felt this film failed to be a hard hitting feminist discourse, mainly because the story was so ordinary.

Not because it's about two people (a very good Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams) of the same sex who fall in love with one another, but because it neither rushes its story (about a woman who returns to her Jewish Orthodox community to bury her late father and reignites her passions with a childhood friend) or judges its characters.

I just made a film about women, with women protagonists... I decided that I'd made enough films about violent men, and I wanted to do a film with only women in the film, and so I did this story because my wife would only go to L.A. if we had to travel out of Copenhagen.

Still, this is a telling clarification of the best - actress discrepancy — the best directors simply aren't making many movies starring women, probably because historically, Hollywood has proven itself to be uninterested in telling stories about women, or even, in many cases giving them speaking roles.

Thomas added, «I had a slight fear of taking on this role, because it has been done so many times before and when I'd read the screenplay, it was a brilliant story and revealed all sort of things that I didn't know about... It was kind of daunting prospect to take on this character but I felt very strongly about showing a woman who also sacrificed a great deal, who was incredibly... to support this man who drove her mad at times and who had his doubts and who had his weaknesses but yet was utterly charming and brutish.»

This back - and - forth leads to a frustrating experience because the girls» story is infinitely more fascinating than their parents, maybe because teen sex comedies about women remain so rare.

In August of last year, a Bollywood movie called Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, which translates to Toilet: A Love Story, debuted about a woman in India who left her marriage because her husband wouldn't build a toilet in their house.

Leslie, the woman in the sidewalk café, tells her story about her trip to the Zambezi River and explains how she came to understand that they were on the scene because the animals had decided to let them be; the animals were the masters and the tourists were powerless intruders.

The short stories came about because some of you wanted to know what happened to make Ashlyn Shaw into the women we meet in Vengeance.

The truth is there are lots foreigners that have a happy relationship with a Thai woman and the only reason why a lot of people don't know about it is because they are hanging out in the bars all the time and get to hear the sad stories that have started and ended in the red light district (often if a Thai hooker breaks up or divorces with her guy she goes back to beach road even though she has enough money just because it's so much easier than looking for a real job).

On the latest Quarter to Three Games Podcast, Tom Chick talked about how Rockstar is telling a specific story and because this story doesn't really have anything to do with women, it shouldn't have to worry about issues of misogyny.

LB: The most memorable moment from the one event I've been to here was when Paul Kos told a story about falling in love with his wife — about knowing he wanted to be with this woman forever because she shoots this donkey in the Grand Canyon.

A woman complaining of rape was charged with obstruction of justice because her Fitbit - recorded activity did not align with her story about the alleged assault.

Usually we're talking about young women who want to know these stories, they want to know the background those are the perfect candidates for the intake position because we don't want them trying to solve this person's problem and most of us even after a few months in the legal industry, we think we have enough information to jump to solving.

Still, the big «horror» stories about waiting to marry are actually about waiting to marry if you want kids — no one seems to be too concerned about marrying latter if you're not going to have kids — because the older women are, the harder it is for them to conceive.