What's the point of saying I have faith and not act upon the One I have faith on. ... Therefore, France's President has decided that rooting out unnecessary influence at the earliest point possible is the best way to avoid contaminating their haute citizens. ... So, when a woman veils herself, she is rejecting that specific role, basically, she is saying that sex will not be part of her public life. ...
Sejour's parents were financially stable enough to send him to private school, where he became under the influence of a black journalist who wrote for the French newspaper in New Orleans. ... Les Cenelles, the first anthology of African American poetry, which was written in French, was also known as a great collection of Creole literature, Jew of Seville (1844), and The Fortune-Teller (1859). ... I am saying that you"re a scoundrel. ...
Love Lost Have you ever had a person in your life that helped you figure out who you were, a woman so special that through patience and devotion showed you a whole new way of thinking. She was someone who did not turn there back on you if you didn't take the right path, and didn't look down on your...
Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction; he buys aviator glasses, a flashy French cap, goes shopping for a new Porsche, and finds a woman half his age to be his new girlfriend. ... A man will drive in a circle for hours, all the while saying things like, "Looks like I've found a new way," and, "I know I'm in the neighborhood. ...
Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story be...
Wheeler to go down to the orchard and pick cherries from the tree when she "persisted rather complainingly, saying that the cherries were too high for her to reach, and that even if she had a ladder it would hurt her back. ...
Witchcraft thus was perceived primarily as a female offense [and] [l]aws favored men: for example, women, unable by law to give legal testimony, did not traditionally know how to use the courts [t]herefore, appeals to the Parliament at Paris, which greatly moderated the force of the witchcraze in France, helped fewer women. ...
