For women who subscribed to this philosophy — dubbing themselves lesbian-feminists — lesbian was a term chosen by women to describe any woman who dedicated her approach to social interaction and political motivation to the welfare of women.

Since Hite performed her study during the popularity of feminism in the 1970s, she also acknowledged that women may have chosen the political identity of a lesbian.

Each woman chosen by the Virtues to live in the city acts as a positive example for other women to follow.

Proetus consented and Melampus, having chosen the most robust among the young men, gave chase to the mad women, amid shouting and dancing, and drove them as far as Sicyon.

Wealthy Roman women wore complex hairstyles that needed the labours of several people to maintain them, and rich people have also often chosen hairstyles that restricted or burdened their movement, making it obvious that they did not need to work.

During later periods, however, uneducated peasant women were chosen for the role, which may explain why the poetic pentameter or hexameter prophecies of the early period, later were made only in prose.

There is no statue of any kind set up in the place, nor is the chamber occupied of nights by any one but a single native woman, who, as the Chaldeans, the priests of this god, affirm, is chosen for himself by the deity out of all the women of the land.

In the traditional Bakweri society, women are chosen as future spouses when they were still children, and in some cases, even before they were born.

It was opened to help sportsmen and women who were in situations of hardship to strive for success in their chosen sporting or cultural discipline.

Amelia is encouraged to stay on her chosen path by Grace, her cleaning woman — who is also her niece ( without either of the women being aware of this ), and by Tom Viner, a young doctor who becomes their lodger.

Although she appears to have come from a noble family, there is no clear reason as to why she would have been chosen as Leo's bride, leading some scholars to speculate that she was selected in a bride-show, in which eligible women were paraded before the bridegroom, until one was finally selected.

The 59 voting members are chosen in the following way as mandated by state law: 28 charter members ( of whom at least three shall be women ), 20 alumni members nominated by the Nominating Committee of the Board of Trustees, and five public members appointed by the governor of the state with confirmation by the New Jersey State Senate.

Water birth is an option chosen by some women for pain relief during labor and childbirth, and some studies have shown waterbirth in an uncomplicated pregnancy to reduce the need for analgesia, without evidence of increased risk to mother or newborn.

No women, however, were chosen to lead any of the eight major Résistance movements, and, after the liberation of France, the provisional government appointed no women as ministers or commissaires de la République.

One crucial piece of indirect evidence has been genetic data suggesting that over thousands of years, women among sub-Saharan African hunter-gatherers have chosen to reside postmaritally not with their husbands ' family but with their own mother and other natal kin.

Members included both men and women, were chosen from the nobility and were required to abstain from sexual intercourse.

Many were well educated men and women who had come seeking greater opportunities in their chosen fields.

Though prison was not something she would have chosen, she said, " It was still lovely to wake up in the morning and feel that one was lovely ," when she compared her lot to the other women incarcerated at Holloway ( Oswald Mosley later mentioned this to Diana's sister Nancy, who in turn included the line in her novel, Love in a Cold Climate ).

One of Mifune's fellow performers, one of the 32 women chosen during the new faces contest, was Sachiko Yoshimine.

Mobile, Alabama is also home to the Azalea Trail Maids, fifty women chosen to serve as ambassadors of the city while wearing antebellum dresses, who originally participated in a three-day festival, but now operate throughout the year.

* Four elderly women, chosen for their ugliness to stand in contrast to the children.

In the Manu tongue, `` eromonga '' means manhood -- a quality which the women derisively toasted in weekly feasts at which great quantities of a brew like kava were imbibed.

Among the visitors arriving every now and then there were, of course, women.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

The dust clogged their throats, and the heat parched them, so that the women were always making ice water.

All the women got up and offered their chairs, and when they were all seated again, the guests made their inquiries and their explanations.

The husbands of these women and others I had met in Catatonia were distinguished only in that they were, to me at least, indistinguishable.

One hebephrenic women confided to me, `` I live in a world of words '', as if, to her, words were fully concrete objects ; ;

Lucy Upton was graduated from the Salem High School when few colleges, only Oberlin and Elmira, were open to women ; ;

The questions women asked at baseball games were standard grist for amateur comedy, as were the doings of women automobile drivers ; ;

And women were not expected to know that the pitcher was trying not to let the batter hit the ball.

The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.

Two women, who had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

In his opening statement to a jury of eight women and four men, Bernard H. Sokol, attorney for the detectives, said that evidence would show that his clients were `` entirely innocent ''.

While neighbor women assumed some of the dead mother's duties, fund-raising events were being planned by a homeowners association and a student council for the hard-hit Henry Kowalski family, 34220 Viceroy.

all their men were bearded, and many of their women were beautiful.

there are beauties from the Balkan states who are similarly endowed, and -- back in the blessed United States -- they were regarded simply as pretty women.

There were more women than men in the place, but he couldn't find a flowerpot.

The women had a bright shining expectancy as they leaned out from the wall and gazed splendidly into the distance, while the men were stern but hopeful.

Surely she could see that these women were her Italians, too, he thought.

At times they would ride frenziedly through the camp, letting the women see their courage, how handsome they were in their regalia.