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She was resentful of his easy success as compared with Shelley's failure.
She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.
She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).
She begins by claiming that her opponent was an “ expert in rhetoric ” as compared to herself “ a woman ignorant of subtle understanding and agile sentiment .” In this particular apologetic response, de Pizan belittles her own style.
She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.
She compared what she found with recordings of non-Christian rituals from Africa, Borneo, Indonesia and Japan.
She hosted 56 state dinners over eight years, compared to six by George and Laura Bush.
She seemed especially kind compared to fellow judge Simon Cowell, who was often blunt in his appraisals of the contestants ' performances.
She indicates that when people, after having been immunized against snake-bite, are bitten by a venomous snake, particularly by krait, cobra or another elapids, they experience an emotional and mental state that has been compared to the effects of hallucinogenic substances.
She also began a jewelry and skincare line, although neither of those ventures compared to the success of her wig collection HAIRuWEAR.
: Example: She was a hippo compared to her aunt.
" She was favorably compared to both Joseph Addison and Samuel Johnson, no mean feat for a woman writer in the 18th century.
She also was inspired by fellow vocalist Whitney Houston, whom Dion has often been compared to.
She famously compared the lengthy shoot to a cold she couldn't get rid of.
Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states,the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”
She compared the phrase to " All this and heaven, too!
She stated that it took her four days to get over the sight of herself aged so drastically, and compared the feeling to having an " electric shock ".
She then took personal charge of the imperial family, directing its affairs with such authority that she became known in society at large as the emperor ’ s guardian .” Immediately when Pulcheria took authority over the imperial palace, the palace took on a much more monastic tone compared to that of her mother ’ s palace.
She suffered from toothaches which she refused to have treated locally, and took extensive measures to shelter herself from the harsh sun, not only spending much of her time under a large parasol but wearing large sunglasses and wrapping her face in a white gauze veil, to the point that her appearance was compared to a Star Wars stormtrooper.
She compared her own move from Boston to New York to Fuller's, saying that Boston was not a good place for intellectuals, despite the assumption that it was the best place for intellectuals.
She is often seen as unattractive when compared to her beautiful older sister, Bridget.
She is known for being very strong willed compared to the other Wise Ones who are all considered strong willed.
She is embarrassed by how " boring " her family is compared to her friends and classmates.
She also compared the ESF to the nazi occupation of Florence.

She and Florida
She was named staff director of the Judiciary Committee of the Florida House of Representatives in 1971.
She helped revise the Florida court system.
She told the Florida newspaper Today in August 1993 that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles ' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet.
She later worked alongside Colonel James Montgomery, and provided him with key intelligence that aided the capture of Jacksonville, Florida.
She was the runner-up at tournaments in Amelia Island, Florida, Los Angeles, and New Haven.
She currently lives with her second husband, John Easterling, in Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida.
She attended the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Boston University, but graduated from the University of Florida in theater.
She died on April 14, 2003 in Fort Myers, Florida.
" She has now set her sights on finding a sweet, bespectacled millionaire in Florida.
( She played an extensive role in making Sarasota, Florida the " City of the Arts " that it is today.
She was one of the largest landholders, ranchers, farmers, and developers in Florida at the turn of the twentieth century.
She is currently a professor at Florida State University, and has served for many years on the Advisory Panel of the BMI Foundation, Inc.
She later moved to the United States to live in Miami, Florida.
She is the mother of the 43rd President George W. Bush and of the 43rd Governor of Florida Jeb Bush.
She lost her first match at the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida.
She believed that the death knell of paramour rights was sounded by the trial of Ruby McCollum, a black woman who murdered her white lover, Dr. C. Leroy Adams, in Live Oak, Florida, in 1952.
" She learned years later that it was Gullah, a West African-influenced English creole used and preserved by people on the islands and in the Low Country of Georgia, South Carolina, and northeastern Florida, together with a particular culture.
She won her first professional singles title in Orlando, Florida in 1974, at the age of 17.
She was convicted and sentenced to death for seven of the murders and was executed by the State of Florida by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
She was sunk in 1990 in Florida to serve as an artificial reef.
She was followed by Elizabeth ( 1957 ), an actress and drama coach now residing in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, then by Vincent.
She also withdrew from the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida for the same reason.
She had become a housewife and a mother of two in Gainesville, Florida.

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