Word: sisterhood
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...there much of a sisterhood among women comics...
...thank you for your article about modern-day nuns. As a 19-year-old who is seriously considering convent life, I can attest to the efficacy of blogs and e-mail in giving prospective sisters a more accurate view of the consecrated life. Your article presented sisterhood in a fair and accessible way, highlighting both the cultural as well as religious aspects. At a time in my life when I am starting to get the courage to tell people about my future plans, seeing this article helped me feel more comfortable with my relatively uncommon potential career path. I appreciated...
...partial to the odd cooking periodical from Britain, and she tries to tell her kids that autograph seekers are people who want directions. (Her oldest, Mia, has stopped believing her, and nearly 3-year-old Joe can't be far behind.) She seems intent on establishing a sisterhood with her audience, particularly women. She won't go to physical extremes in prepping for a role and has not courted Oscar as many actresses have--by transforming herself into someone uglier or fitter or of a different gender...
...career as a pharmacist, volunteering at her church, a hospital library and a pregnancy crisis center in her spare time. "But there was just an emptiness inside that doing the volunteer work and the pharmacy work didn't fill in me," she says. When a pastor again suggested sisterhood, Schreifels reconsidered. In 2003 she joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Mankato, Minn., who do not mandate a habit or discourage her from continuing to work as a pharmacist for Target. Schreifels gave up her Subaru Forester and apartment and moved into a house with the sisters...
...Briefly, in the film, Emily has the attitude of the good student who doesn?t care to be kept after class because the bad girl mouthed off. "If anybody asks me - ?I didn?t say it. Talk to her.?" But that?s not really an option. "We?re a sisterhood," Emily says. "We go through the good, the bad and the ugly all together...