She preferred playing with boys than girls, which would carry the jealousy of her sisters.

She preferred her husband's mistresses to be ladies-in-waiting, as that way she believed she could keep a closer eye on them.

She hated school and preferred to play alone.

She preferred to perform in concert and recital only.

She was ordered to decide a fight between two kings, Hjalmgunnar and Agnar, and knew that Odin preferred the older king, Hjalmgunnar, yet she decided the battle for Agnar.

She preferred German princes who could establish homes in the UK.

She, her father Tokimasa, and her brother Yoshitoki created a council of regents for the eighteen-year-old Yoriie, but the headstrong shogun hated his mother's family and preferred his wife's family, the Hiki clan, and his father-in-law, Hiki Yoshikazu.

“” She preferred to cross the mountain by leaving a track that would show forever her contempt for Ulster … to make the Pass of the Cualinge Cattle .” Furthermore this scene also reveals much of Medb ’ s character as a somewhat stubborn, scornful woman.

She preferred simplicity and solitude to the pomp and ceremony of life at Court.

" She preferred to renounce all social amusements and pleasures so desired by young ladies of her age ... and has devoted her entire life to loving and caring for me ," the Tsar wrote.

" She writes that gynomorphic male and andromorphic female are preferred, adding, " I hope future work on these animals is carried out with more professionalism.

She preferred to say she wrote " romantic novels of suspense ".

She is also well known for her trademark rapid-fire dialogue, which is often full of obscure pop culture references ; and as well for her preferred master shot filming style.

She preferred a life of comfort but evidently did not wish to stifle his ambition.

She preferred to buy readymade garments rather than made-to-order outfits.

She opposed the execution of Louis XVI of France, partly out of opposition to capital punishment and partly because she preferred a relatively tame and living king to the possibility of a rebel regency in exile.

She opposed Pierce's decision to run for president, for she much preferred private life.

She preferred originals to their adaptations, and so her work ended up being critical of Shakespeare.

She naturally preferred the stage in any event.

" She also wished to live a life more in the style of a queen, while he preferred a more simple family life.

She continued to commute to Hollywood to make films but preferred the small town life.

She preferred to remain independent.

She worked with all of the grades, but she preferred to work with the fourth year students, and prepare them for the wider world.

She insisted on being sponsored by Robert Smillie and her old friend, James Maxton to be introduced to the commons, rather than by the leadership's preferred choice of sponsors.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

She emigrated from England with her parents in 1871 when she was 18, where they settled in Brooklyn, New York.

According to Rachael Hanel, " She lived off her savings, interest income from a trust, money from her parents, and selling her simple, Rubenesque line drawings.

She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.

She was later released and after returning to San Francisco spoke out against deprograming but declined to press legal charges against her parents.

She and her two brothers were coming to America to meet their parents, who had moved to New York two years prior.

She thinks Ash murdered her parents at first, but when the evil spirits unleash against them, she realizes the truth and finds out her only way to survive is to help Ash defeat the spirits.

She was her parents ' tenth child, sickly from birth.

She learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to Brooklyn that same year ( 1989 ).

She was unmarried as her parents had refused to let her marry into a northern abolitionist family.

She travelled the world with her parents from an early age.

She grew up in Palmdale, California, the daughter of Norwegian-American parents, Elsie Soliah ( née Engstrom ) and Palmdale High School English teacher and coach Martin Soliah.

She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting ; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs ; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program ; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.

She said her real father was Indian and that she was the result of an " unregistered alliance " between her parents.

She was her parents ' youngest child, but her father was murdered in 1052 and one year later ( 1053 ) her older sister Beatrice ( namesake of their mother ) also died.

She encourages him to seek the hospitality of her parents, Arete and Alcinous, or Alkinous.

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.

She was raised by her parents, Jacqueline and Clancy Bouvier.

She attended one of O ' Sullivan's films playing in London's West End and told her parents of her ambitions to become an actress.

She was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents ' friendship with writer Aldous Huxley's wife, Laura Huxley.

She stayed with Sam Green, a free black minister living in East New Market, Maryland ; she also hid near her parents ' home at Poplar Neck in Caroline County, Maryland.

She also made periodic trips back to Auburn, to visit her family and care for her parents.

She worked various jobs to support her elderly parents, and took in boarders to help pay the bills.