Sentences with phrase «telling stories about women»

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.

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.

Now, the addition of food adds a layer of detail and helps tell a story about the women I draw.»

James Farmer tells a story about a woman who acquired wealth and decided to have a book written about her genealogy.

Harvey H. Potthoff tells a story about a woman in a certain church who was asked, after the service, whether she was a stranger there.

He want on to tell a story about a woman who apparently believed this (or most of it?)

I recently read a blog where the author, a specialist in nutrition and particularly Ayurvedic diet, told a story about a woman who had a magnesium deficiency despite including large amounts of brown rice in her diet.

we would like to tell you stories about women we think made a difference to this world; women who were bold enough to go against the flow, to stir things up; women who were passionate about what they did and left something valuable behind.

I remember doing an interview with TechTV about safe dating and they had told me a story about a woman from Oregon that flew down to San Diego to meet a man that she met in a chat room and she stayed with him for a week and when she went to leave he stabbed her several times and left her to die.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

«I would just like to thank Tonya for sharing her story... What this movie did is tell a story about class in America, tell a story about the disenfranchised, tell the story about a woman who was not embraced for her individuality, tell a story about truth and the perception of truth in the media and truths we all tell ourselves.»

Imagine «women who tell the stories about women» getting an equal opportunity to at least pitch those ideas to the real decision - makers.

Not exact matches

One woman who attended a CRAVE buzz party told everyone about her business, at that event she gained two wholesale buyers, which led to the news doing a story on her business on the morning news the next day!

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Four women have told publications detailed stories about encounters with Trump that ended with groping, kissing and other unwanted sexual advances.

The more stories we can tell about the success of women in tech, the more diversity we can attract to the field.

She added that the Gamergate incidents, as well as the stories of sexism in the industry described by many female game developers, have spurred some women to tell Edwards that they're thinking about leaving the industry or discouraging their daughters from working in it.

So I thought that a book in which some of these women told their own stories about Jesus would not only bring the Gospels to life in our minds, but it would also bring Jesus alive in our hearts.

One beautiful woman told about how she had seen someone worshipping with a purple and orange flag one time and how it reminded her of the story of the woman with the alabaster box of perfume, how that woman ran to Jesus leaping over conventions to smash that box open at his feet and poured out all of her treasure for him and weep and wipe his feet with her hair, longing for forgiveness and I swear the warehouse began to smell of perfume.

Both Matthew and Luke therefore reject the implication in the present arrangement of the Marcan story that the women disobeyed the command of the unknown messenger in keeping silent about the message they were instructed to tell the disciples and Peter.

Paul Harvey, in his «The Rest of the Story» radio broadcast, tells the story about a young woman named Terry, who, in 1977 wanted to buy a Christmas present for her husStory» radio broadcast, tells the story about a young woman named Terry, who, in 1977 wanted to buy a Christmas present for her husstory about a young woman named Terry, who, in 1977 wanted to buy a Christmas present for her husband.

I particularly loved her stories about the early days of the feminist movement and the «talking circles» — how simply gathering women together and letting them tell their stories — was what gave the movement it's power and connection.

And of course, many of you have been inspired by the «woman of valor» blessing and have fun stories to tell about that.

Again, I invite you to buy THE LIBERATION OF SOPHIA... a book about my change told through the story of a woman who changes.

Male authority that does not stand up for women, teach about women, tell stories of women in the church.

I had heard so many horror stories about bossy, insensitive women in tweeds reducing young mums to tears over their choice of cot covers that I was half - expecting some female Darth Vader to turn up and tell me off for painting the nursery the wrong shade of blue [or indeed painting it blue at all — gender stereotyping, tut tut].

Rather, it was one woman's story about her journey to both make sense of what the church has told us the Bible calls us to be as women, and to truly understand what God's Word actually has to say about women.

One of the troopers told Brock a story about a «woman named Paula» who allegedly had consensual sex with Clinton in his hotel room and then offered to be his «regular girlfriend.»

I also finally understood, and connected with all of those women I had read about in blogs who wanted to tell anyone and everyone about their amazing birth story; and I had a new respect for the amazing work that doulas do.

I want to share this story to add to the voices of women who are telling positive stories about birth.

The 15 stories you're about to read today are hilarious ways women came up with a way to utilize breastmilk to get the perfect payback on someone who stole from them, pranked them, taunted them, or just plain told them breastmilk was gross!

Dr. Michel Odent in France and Dr. Michael Rosenthal in California collected information about its effects and women who had experienced it told their stories.

A lot of women have told wonderful stories about how prenatal yoga classes, stretches, sitting and walking positions as well as yoga balls, have helped get baby into the best position for labor.

I have heard first - hand stories of women being denied epidurals, lied to about the effects of epidural analgesia, and not being provided with proper informed consent about the risks of going to 42 weeks at her 41 week appointment (as in, the mother wasn't told anything that was in the College of Midwives» sample consent document about increased risk of stillbirth).

I asked her to tell me about her work and what she has noticed about women's efforts to write their birth stories.

The governor then told a story about marching in a parade with Spitzer behind a very attractive woman.

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.

Unlike David Cameron and Gordon Brown, with whom it's possible to refer, en passant, to Bullingdon Club shenanigans, or a rugby injury, or a manse, and for nearly everyone to know what that might mean, all most people knew about Clegg (if they could name the leader of the Liberal Democrats at all) was perhaps that he had some European connections, though they weren't sure what, and maybe that he once told Piers Morgan he'd had 30 lovers (in fact, asked by Morgan whether he had slept with 30 women, Clegg replied: «It's a lot less than that» — not that that got in the way of a good story.)

So people out there, you don't know my story, so, don't use politics to go there,» Ms Djaba told Kwadwo Asare - Baffour Acheampong (KABA) on Asempa FM's Ekosii Sen political talk show on Wednesday, 8 March in response to queries about whether she was on good terms with her mother, especially with the day being International Women's Day.

As more details of the story came to light, we heard women tell how, as girls, they had told teachers, nurses, and other people in authority about Savile's violence.

On Tuesday evening, the campaign unveiled four television ads, each 30 - second spot telling a story about a specific working woman's economic plight (Clinton does not appear in the ads at all).

These new profiles, from interviews with young women at the start of their science careers, tell their stories of passion and persistence - what drives and excites them about their work in the sciences

They tell a story about Janet, a 75 - year old obese woman who has diabetes and arthritis, but really wants a cat for company.

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.»

The data also tell a story about variables that influence the success of women who earn doctorates in S&E: they are more likely to have attended a liberal arts college rather than a university as undergraduates.

At a recent event at Columbia University, hosted by the organization Women in Science at Columbia, I told my story and passed along lessons I've learned about how people — especially women — can make the most of their lives and carWomen in Science at Columbia, I told my story and passed along lessons I've learned about how people — especially women — can make the most of their lives and carwomen — can make the most of their lives and careers.

Case in point: I've coached women who believed stories similar to the ones I used to tell myself, and yet there are plenty of women who told themselves very different stories about their motherhood decision, as illustrated in Meghan Daum's anthology Selfish, Shallow, and Self - Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids.

But before I tell you, let me tell you another quick 30 second story about how some extra attention from women once you have a flat masculine chest and a stunning physique, can really be a cool bonus.

I was at an event last week and this woman on stage was telling a story about meeting Oprah, and actually getting her producer's phone number.

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