Sentences with phrase «story as an older woman»

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But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

We may not have a ceremony through which to grieve them, but it is our responsibility as women of faith to guard the dark stories for our own daughters, and when they are old enough, to hold their faces between our hands and make them promise to remember.

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.

People living to near a 1000 years old, giants, creation stories, talking snakes, angels making out with women, sea monsters, people being turned into salt, human sacrifice as a good thing,... Compared to that some of the Greek myths actually look realistic.

Of course, like every other pregnant woman, I'd heard many well - meaning mothers recant their birth stories like old veterans retelling their war stories (and sometimes just as gruesome).

Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor of New York last week, the only story in the race as compelling as his upset victory has been their personal back story: that her husband not only had an affair, not only fathered a child with that other woman, but also told his wife of 40 years about it all the same week that their 29 - year - old son, Patrick, was killed in a car accident.

One case report in the New England Journal of Medicine highlighted the story of an 88 - year - old woman who showed up to the ER with hypothyroidism after eating about 2 or 3 pounds of bok choy a day — but, as Ilic points out, «that's not a normal amount.»

In fact, as research for an upcoming book, one author interviewed 150 women and found that the steamiest sex stories came from the older women!

But they're far from limited to that demographic as there have been stories of older women and younger millennials who've fallen victims to scammers as well.

As a 22 - year - old single woman I'm pretty much living in the thickest part of the modern hookup culture — perfecting the art of getting the right guy to Three new discoveries in a month rock our African origins The evolutionary story of modern humans just got more complicated

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The Iraqi girl's story has been released as part of a number of horrific accounts from girls and women kept as sex slaves by Islamic State and Boko Haram Two girls thought to be around seven or eight years old died in blasts in a crowded area near a market in Nigeria, killing one person and wounding 18

Small, incidental scenes contribute nifty insights and shading: the Post sends a young reporter up to New York to sneak into the Times offices to try to find out what Sheehan is up to; an elite dinner at Graham's home concludes when the men and women retire to different rooms, as if it were still 19th century England; when Sheehan's first Pentagon Papers story is set to break in the Times the next morning, it's none other than McNamara (Bruce Greenwood) himself who calls his old friend Graham to alert her.

With the well - honed eyes of her camera lenses, Bombach tackles the incredible story of Nadia Murad, a 23 - year - old Yazidi woman who was kept as a sex slave for ISIS when she was just 19.

Tarantino's feature in the project is the story of three women harassed by an old movie stunt that uses his «death proof» car as a murderous weapon.

Jessica Chastain, a 35 - year - old actress known for stellar performances in side roles for movies like «The Help» and the oblique «Tree of Life,» anchors the story as Maya, a woman who in a sense is the opposite of an Israeli Sabra in that Maya is soft on the outside and rock - hard within.

Set at the end of the 19th century, Slow West follows the story of 16 - year - old Jay Cavendish as he journeys across the American Frontier in search of the woman he loves, accompanied by a mysterious traveller named Silas (Michael Fassbender).

At the lower end of the register, Nora Ephron's first time directing «This Is My Life» is a fine, but forgettable story of a woman forced to choose between family and her stand - up career and nowhere near as good as stuff she'd do later, while Guillermo Arriaga («Babel,» «Amores Perros» scripts) went back to the old «interconnecting stories» well for his debut «The Burning Plain» but with diminishing returns.

Bloody Disgusting now has a Hitchcockian one - sheet for Keating's psychological horror story that «Begins as a lonely young woman (Lauren Ashley Carter) moves into an old, mysterious Manhattan mansion.

A tale as old as time but with far less animated household objects, «The Shape of Water» is a romance, a love story between Elisa, a mute woman who falls in love with Amphibian Man, the newest source of fear & curiosity in the 1950's government run facility where she works.

Mickey is first interested in the older woman and then becomes interested in the younger woman, and still he tells the story as if he's objective, up there almost omniscient on the lifeguard's stand at the ocean's edge.

This handsome drama works hard to tell an old story in new ways, rendering Churchill's early prime ministerial career as a minefield of political peril, and considering the women in his life, particularly his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) and secretary (Lily James).

Showing in the out - of - competition Premieres section, the film is described in the official Sundance announcement as «a coming - of - age story about a 28 - year - old woman stuck in permanent adolescence.»

Fulfilling a decades - old dream, Beatty will star as Howard Hughes in a story of the billionaire's May - December affair with a younger woman.

The slowly - paced love story allows Jones to shine in her emotionally complex role as an infatuated, frustrated young woman in love with an older man.

The story of Izzy Klein (Madelyn Deutch), a young woman fresh out of college as she strikes up and ruins relationships with several men, and struggles to navigate the failures of post-college adulthood, leaning on her mother and older sister for support.

Many of the historical details, such as the first person Barnum ever put on exhibition — a nearly blind and paralyzed slave woman named Joice Heth he claimed was over 100 years old and owned by George Washington himself — are completely removed from the story.

The story concerns Greta (Lauren Cohan), a young American woman who's taken a job as a nanny to an eight - year - old boy in a rambling mansion in the remote British countryside.

Synopsis: Nymphomaniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman's erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self - diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe.On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman, finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway.

(For example, even the incredibly wise Sarah Polley, who made this weekend's wonderful; Stories We Tell, conceded at a Q&A for the film that she hadn't even noticed her lead female characters are defined by their relationships with their male partners, as pointed out by an older woman in her audience.)

Recently, in fact, Macy visited the Baptist church in Truevine, Virginia, the tiny community from which the brothers were taken, where a 102 - year - old woman asserted that the brothers were kidnapped while playing in the churchyard as their parents worshipped — a story Macy had never heard before.

Nothing is 100 %, of course, and the story opens with a photographer spying on a woman as she removes her costume, then selling the information to an old friend.

Yet within the small haven of the beauty school, the line between teacher and student quickly blurred as these vibrant women shared with Rodriguez their stories and their hearts: the newlywed who faked her virginity on her wedding night, the twelve - year - old bride sold into marriage to pay her family's debts, the Taliban member's wife who pursued her training despite her husband's constant beatings.

Stolz paints a vivid picture of an all - female community and a young woman's coming - of - age in nineteenth - century Libya, in a story that follows 11 - year - old Malika as she questions the restrictions that she encounters as she approaches marriageable age.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

With revelations that prove as captivating as the deceptions at the heart of her bestselling phenomenon The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards now gives us the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family.

Elizabeth McKenzie's new novel, The Portable Veblen, is a delightful story about 30 - year - old Veblen Amundsen - Hovda, a single woman who makes her own clothes and works as a temp at the Stanford School of Medicine.

It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer.

McCorkle is an acute observer of the foibles of domestic life, and in stories like the title tale, in which a woman is yoked to her dying mother as a caretaker while her younger sisters carp at her from a distance, or «Surrender,» where a grandmother must suffer the childish cruelty of her late son's five - year - old daughter, she blends empathy for her characters» predicaments with an unsparing take on those grim circumstances.

As the 14 - year - old Neue Galerie has shown, the Vienna of that era was a vital, internationally - minded, interdisciplinary art center that continues to fuel new books and exhibitions — including one timed to the release of Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren and based on the story of the museum's trophy painting, Klimt's heavily gilded Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer.