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 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 compared Florida sugarcane agriculture to sugarcane grown in the West Indies, that she claimed was more environmentally sound, had a longer harvest cycle less harmful to soil nutrients, and was less expensive for consumers due to the higher sugar content.

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 stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

She did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;

She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.

She placed her palms, fingers outspread, on the desk in an odd gesture as if to say, `` Now, what next ''??

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

She regretted what she described as the `` unwarrantable & unnecessary '' check to their friendship and said that she felt that they understood one another perfectly.

She showed us what had happened to her.

She said, `` My dear, do you know what Kent House is ''??

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

She disciplined herself daily to do what must be done.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

She stammered, `` You heard what he said about police??

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

She ate what she could and went out along the covered passageway, with the rain dripping from the vines.

She doled out what Glendora vaguely guessed were the right amounts of dried peas, eggs, cornmeal, a little salt.

She could always predict what Stanley was going to do, ever since she first met him.

She didn't tell anyone, even her mother, what was wrong.

She calmly repeated what Moore had told me.

She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.

She managed a missionary drive for the church once and got the books so confused that old Mr. Webber, the eldest elder, who'd never donated more than five dollars to anything, had to cough up five hundred dollars to avoid a scandal in what Edythe called `` the bosoms of the church ''.

She knew what people were thinking ; ;

She said what she meant and let it be.

She discovered the quality and depth of her feelings in the wordless transitions between what she could say and what she could not say.

She contended that this understanding was what enabled the biblical Jesus to heal and accords with the Scripture: " We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth not us.