They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

`` I'm a mess '', she said, and suddenly she was alarmed.

He treats her like she was dirt.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

He had forgotten that she was so pretty.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

After the months in Europe, she returned to Boston and became active in church and community life.

In 1988 she entered active duty at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a research chemist.

Once she returned, she continued being politically active and was involved with the Symbionese Liberation Army.

At the same time, however, she is seen as active in ensuring the succession of kings and in the preservation of humankind through the protection of childbirth.

After her husband's death in 1907, she became more active.

Mary's initial popularity ebbed away in 1554 when she announced plans to marry Prince Philip of Spain, the son of Emperor Charles V and an active Catholic.

In addressing the heterosexual female spectator, she revised her stance to argue that women can take two possible roles in relation to film: a masochistic identification with the female object of desire that is ultimately self-defeating or a transsexual identification with men as the active viewers of the text.

While she did not focus on gender politics in her writings, by taking an active role in the tumultuous time of the Revolution, Roland took a stand for women of the time and proved they could take an intelligent active role in politics.

Isabella II of Spain took a more active role in government after coming of age, but she was immensely unpopular throughout her reign ( 1833 – 1868 ).

Though by then she was no longer an active member of science fiction fandom, she was interviewed by phone during Wiscon ( the feminist science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin ) in 2006 by her friend and member of the same cohort, Samuel R. Delany.

She was educated at Stradbroke Primary and Pembroke School and, later, the University of Adelaide where she graduated B. A .. She was active in student politics, becoming president of the Students ' Association of the University of Adelaide ( SAUA ) and serving as state women's officer for the National Union of Students in South Australia.

In 1914, NNS built the SS Medina for the Mallory Steamship Company ; as the MV Doulos she is now the world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship.

Before posting to the Enterprise, Sato taught linguistics in Brazil ; it is not known whether she was an active Starfleet officer or was reactivated to serve under Jonathan Archer.

Gellar is an active advocate for various charities, including breast cancer research, Project Angel Food, Habitat for Humanity and CARE, Of her charitable pursuits, she says, " I started because my mother taught me a long time ago that even when you have nothing, there's ways to give back.

Shortly after David's tenure on the book ended, Forge, a former government weapons contractor whose mutant powers were his brilliant engineering skills, was added to the group ; first replacing Cooper as their liaison after she had been compromised by one of Magneto's Acolytes, and later as an active member.

It was around this time that she switched from attending the local Congregational church, where she had been baptised and, in which she and her family had always been active members, to the Anglican church.

This changed around 1020, when she became more active in affairs.

Władysław II Jagiello and Queen Jadwiga reigned as co-monarchs ; and though Jadwiga probably had little real power, she took an active part in Poland's political and cultural life.

During war time Johanna was very active at the local scene: she harboured German officials arrived in the city, and they dined at her house ; volunteered to nurse wounded soldiers ; and sheltered many of the less fortunate Weimar citizens whose homes French soldiers had taken over.

`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman's Exchange isn't taking baked goods any more and I can't leave the baby with Grandma because she isn't strong enough and the baby's too young to be put in a nursery ''.

When she returned east in 1913, she joined Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and others in founding the militant Congressional Union, which became the National Woman's Party.

" Elizabeth Cady Stanton produced The Woman's Bible, excising the traditional Christian text of all references she thought contradicted the positions of women's rights.

In 1994, she released Gaia: One Woman's Journey which chronicled her ordeal.

In regard to the grievance " He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns ," Assemblyman Ansel Bascom stood to say that he had recently been at the New York State Assembly which passed the Married Woman's Property Act.

Although his mother was a popular spokeswoman for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and a highly religious woman, Crane did not believe that " she was as narrow as most of her friends or family.

Patten had been a professional model since age 3, and caught the attention of Disney when she appeared on the cover of Woman's Home Companion magazine.

Following the separation, Charlotte moved with her daughter to Pasadena, California, where she became active in several feminist and reformist organizations such as The Pacific Coast Woman's Press Association, the Woman's Alliance, the Economic Club, the Ebell Society, the Parents Association, and the State Council of Women, in addition to writing and editing the Bulletin, a journal put out by one of the earlier-mentioned organizations.

Her portrait was featured on a stamp in commemoration of International Woman's Day, and in 1977, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, the first level of the highest possible honour for a Canadian civilian.

She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the largest group of like-minded women's rights reformers, the politically-moderate American Woman Suffrage Association, which worked for decades at the state level in favor of women's right to vote.

In the long-running and influential Woman's Journal, a weekly periodical that she established and promoted, Stone aired both her own and differing views about women's rights.

" In August 1855, she was referred to as " Mrs. Blackwell " in the minutes of the annual Woman's Rights Convention at Saratoga, New York, with the report that Antoinette Brown introduced her to the assemblage as Lucy Stone Blackwell.

" In response, she points to Mary Collier's works such as The Woman's Labour ( 1739 ) to help understand Smith's contemporaneous experiences of women and fill in such gaps.

Lane's occasional work as a traveling war correspondent began with a stint with the American Red Cross Publicity Bureau in post-WWI Europe and continued though 1965, when at the age of 78, she was reporting from Vietnam for Woman's Day magazine, providing " a woman's point of view.

While in Egypt, Lady Gregory had an affair with the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, during which she wrote a series of love poems, A Woman's Sonnets.

From 1872 to 1879, she assisted Lucy Stone and Henry Brown Blackwell in editing Woman's Journal.

Her parents told Woman's Day that Rosemary was " studying to be a kindergarten teacher ", and Parents was told that while she had " an interest in social welfare work, she is said to harbor a secret longing to go on the stage ".

The circumstances of Sibley and Red Blanket Woman's relationship are obscure, but several sources suggest that she remarried a Dakota man, perhaps in 1842, and died in early 1843.

In 1874, Willard participated in the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ) where she was elected the first corresponding secretary.

" For twenty years, she supported a German industrial school, and from 1872 until her death she was a manager of the Woman's Hospital, besides taking an active part in the Niobrara League to aid the Indians and in many other charities.