She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

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

She had helped him change his mind.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.

She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.

She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.

She had to escape.

She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.

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

She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.

She had arrived this morning and come straight to the English Gardens.

She had retreated to this world.

She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

She had hated the whole idea before they started.

She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

She might have been someone he had once loved.

She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.

She wrote A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1853, extensively documenting the realities on which the book was based, to refute critics who tried to argue that it was inauthentic ; and published a second anti-slavery novel, Dred, in 1856.

She was not able to refute the charges due to the prohibition against lèse majesté.

Against their advice, Akasha forces the witch sisters to seek answers from the spirits to countless shallow questions she asks, but the ensuing answers, some in the form of obscene gestures, ultimately enrage the Queen by confirming her inner emptiness -- " She had asked questions of the supernatural, a very foolish thing to do, and she had received answers which she could neither accept nor refute.

She was also one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.

She also sought to widen the scope of the presidency, developing new economic, political and cultural links between the state and other countries and cultures, especially those of the Irish diaspora.

" She further wrote that whereas the original radical feminism " challenge the polarization of the sexes ", cultural feminism simply embraces the " traditional feminine virtues ".

She received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the " Writers and Artists " category in April 2000 for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage.

She was also an open lesbian, despite the conservative cultural climate of the 1950s.

She loved dancing and pageants, activities often frowned upon in Presbyterian Scotland, but for which she found a vibrant outlet in Jacobean London, where she created a " rich and hospitable " cultural climate at the royal court, became an enthusiastic playgoer, and sponsored lavish masques.

She is also cultural affairs spokesperson for the Alliance ' 90 / The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag and chairperson of the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group.

She concludes about Ovid and his version of Myrrha that: " What is perverted, for Ovid, is the use of sex as a power tool and the blind acceptance of sexual male power as a cultural norm.

She presided over the ancient festivals of the dead, which evolved from Aztec traditions into the modern Day of the Dead after synthesis with Spanish cultural traditions.

She next transferred to the Harlem branch, as she was interested in the cultural excitement in the neighborhood.

She was illiterate, knew no German, and had no interest in cultural or intellectual matters.

She raised funds for the preservation of Russian cultural heritage, for the fostering of new talent, and for treatment programs for children's blood cancer.

She has been called "... one of the most legendary and enduring figures of 20th-century American cultural history.

She was placed in several institutions and foster homes in Iowa and returned to Cuba several times over the course of her short life to " rediscover " her cultural origins.

She was not however brought up as Jewish, and never practised Judaism, though it has been suggested that she " retained the cultural values of liberal Judaism ".

She signed the manifesto Refus global, a watershed event in the Quebec cultural scene, in 1948.

She had a reputation as a respected Arabist, and her instructions were to broaden cultural and commercial contacts with the Iraqi regime.

She completed a degree in Sociology at the University of Warwick ( 1973-76 ), and also later took courses in cultural studies at the University of Birmingham and the University of East Anglia.

She spent large sums of money in a highly visible campaign to support scholars, collect Bulgarian art, and sponsor cultural institutions.

She outlines the patriarchy that still exists within modern day life but more significantly in Chinese cultural practices.

She represents the state and values of France, differently from another French cultural symbol, the " Coq Gaulois " (" Gallic rooster ") which represents France as a nation and its history, land, culture, and variety of sport disciplines in their combative forms.

She stopped teaching and concentrated on writing and other cultural activities in the field of music ( especially Baroque music ).

She performed with Maud Gonne in several plays at the newly established Abbey Theatre, an institution that played an important part in the rise of cultural nationalism.

She has also been a cultural ambassador for the U. S .; for instance, she was invited to play in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, with a South Korean orchestra in 2002.