He had known women like that, one woman in particular.

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 ''.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

The youth with the snake had a natural pride and joy of life which appealed to the woman.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Fosdick had found the installations surrounded by a battery of saloons and houses of prostitution, with filles de joie from all over the country flocking to San Antonio, Laredo, and El Paso to `` woman the cribs ''.

Every woman has had the experience of saying no when she meant yes, and saying yes when she meant no.

She had a dried-out quality -- a gray, lean woman, not unattractive.

The man wore a vest and a tie, the woman had on a dark green dress and three strands of pearls.

His image of the Virgin had always been that of a young woman, even as had his memory of his mother.

For the moment there was no woman in his life, and it was this vacuum that had given Claire her opportunity.

She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.

Of course he couldn't say much, really, because of Debora, but Linda Kay could imagine what kind of woman his wife had been and what a raw deal he had got.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

There are videos, books, and magazines on how a man may look more like a woman.

Two particular examples are Lillian, an eccentric ( and very nearsighted ) old lady with odd quirks, and Greta, a muscle bound woman who was hired to look after the pets during New Years.

Women who are XY report identifying as a woman — feeling and thinking like a woman — and, where their biology is completely insensitive to masculinizing factors, externally they look identical to other women.

In 2011 The Telegraph reported the most sought after body parts of the rich and famous revealed by two Hollywood plastic surgeons who carried out a survey among their patients to build up the picture of what the perfect woman would look like.

Instead, in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital – as English critic George Saintsbury describes it – " in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion, with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him ", while the rest of the family moved to a house twenty miles outside Paris.

" George Lucas, however, has denied a connection, saying: " In the 1977 film, I was working very hard to create something different that wasn't fashion, so I went with a kind of Southwestern Pancho Villa woman revolutionary look, which is what that is.

As of the 35th Karlovy Vary IFF 2000 the Crystal Globe has taken on a new look: now the figure of a woman stands raising a crystal ball ( artistic concept worked out by Tono Stano, Aleš Najbrt, Michal Caban, and Šimon Caban ).

Its display of one Anorexia nervosa | anorectic and one obesity | fat woman is a demonstration against society's obsession with how people look.

" Davidson points out that Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan's detailed account of a 10th-century Rus ship funeral on the Volga River features an " old Hunnish woman, massive and grim to look upon " ( who Fadlan refers to as the " Angel of Death ") who organizes the killing of the slave girl, and has two other women with her that Fadlan refers to as her daughters.

Her malevolent, libertine nature, however, is kept well hidden from most people, as she created a façade of moral righteousness which makes her look as a virtuous and puritan woman to almost everyone on her entourage.

A young woman holds a balance, symbolizing justice ; she does not look at the mirror or the skull on the table before her.

The couple look at each other and the man “ opens his mouth to vituperate ” but the woman shushes him, uttering the only sound in the whole play.

Gradually the horrified look we have seen before on the couple and the old woman ’ s faces appears on his.

It is wrong to look with desire upon a woman ; but it is divine to admire her beauty: it is wrong only insofar as man does not regard beauty as a manifestation of God, but misconceives it, and thinks of it in reference to himself.

He examines a calendar with a woman in a swimsuit on the wall, turns to look back at his opponent and realizes that he desires human companionship more than he wants to continue a now-pointless conflict.

" We went to great pains to establish that this is the way a Vulcan woman — a sexy Vulcan woman — would look ," said Mills.

Thus on the one hand the insulting ' obscene invitations of a man to a strange girl can be the spicy endearments of a husband to his wife '; on the other hand, the male gaze may be insulting in and of itself to a feminist, whereas a post-feminist might note more discriminatingly how ' his eyes took me in ... at least he didn't look at me offensively ; and believe me, if you're a woman who works in a bar, you can tell the difference between an evaluation and an eye fuck '.

Davis felt no woman could look at her husband when she admits such a thing.

She was determined to look like an actress on the skids, and insisted Orry-Kelly design costumes appropriate for a woman who had seen better days.

She is a plain, large woman who believes that the Fern sisters look down on her for being a hairdresser and marrying late.

However, other figures look out of the painting at the viewer: the woman with her child and the man using an oar to launch the boat.

* The theology of male clergy within the Independent movement is also suspect according to the Roman Catholics, as they presumably approve of the ordination of females, and may have even undergone an ( invalid ) ordination ceremony conducted by a woman.

This was an age in which women were seen as " hysterical " and " nervous " beings ; thus, when a woman claimed to be seriously ill after giving birth, her claims were sometimes dismissed as being invalid.

Louise Howell is an emotionally unstable woman working as a nurse to the invalid wife of Dean Graham in the Graham home.

In Sorry, Wrong Number ( 1948 ), an invalid woman ( Barbara Stanwyck ) overheard a murder plot on the phone – against herself.

:* The Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio, Texas rules in Littleton v. Prange a post-operative transgender woman remains legally male and therefore her marriage to a biological male was invalid.

But a court ruled that Crispi ’ s 1853 marriage on Malta was invalid because it was contracted while another woman he had married yet earlier was also still alive.

Her behaviour was exemplary and Mr de Bougainville refers to it with all due credit .... His Lordship has been gracious enough to grant to this extraordinary woman a pension of two hundred livres a year to be drawn from the fund for invalid servicemen and this pension shall be payable from 1 January 1785.

On July 12, 2002, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that the marriages performed by Hawkes in January 2001 were legal, but stayed its decision pending a possible appeal, and on June 10, 2003, the Court of Appeal for Ontario declared the common law definition of marriage as " invalid to the extent that it refers to “ one man and one woman ” et al.

Society did not allow married women to have what we would today consider a career, and any work they could do outside their own homes was limited to a narrow selection of fields ( schoolteacher, companion to an older or invalid woman, nurse, seamstress, and similar occupations ).

According to Imam an-Nawawi, “ If a woman leads a man or men in a congregational prayer, the prayer of the men is invalid.

The story concerns four main characters: Dr. John Montague, an investigator of the supernatural ; Eleanor Vance, a shy young woman who resents having lived as a recluse caring for her demanding invalid mother ; Theodora, a flamboyant, bohemian, possibly lesbian artist ; and Luke Sanderson, the young heir to Hill House, who is host to the others.

On the other side, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that an ordination ceremony performed on a woman would be invalid as well as illicit ; this doctrine is found in the writings of Thomas Aquinas and many others.