The heroines of "Giselle" and "Swan Lake" are complex tragic heroines, with conflicted inner lives; the heroine of "Coppélia" outwits the ballet's two leading men.
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By interposing her own stories among Austen's, changing heroines and making mischief, Aiken forces us to see what Austen made her own heroines see: themselves from another perspective.
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Drew and Jonathan Scott are the heroines this world needs.
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This Halloween, pay homage to TV's finest set of heroines.
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There's usually a sidekick of color, but hardly any heroines.
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In case you haven't noticed, movie heroines are trending (again).
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Where I come from, there are no heroes or heroines.
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The Heroines of Studio Ghibli from Leigh Singer on Vimeo.
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The film is driven by the verve of its heroines.
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The two Batverse heroines are far from the same character.
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Daisy, like all true heroines, comes to own her complexity.
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We're pleased to say that it's been a year for heroines.
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Unlike her fellow heroines, Antoinette is not limited to soft power.
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How does she break the mold in terms of typical heroines?
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These heroines reject the centuries-old trope of the demure woman.
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A Word With Romantic-comedy heroines can seldom have it all.
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The women sewed gowns for the courtly heroines with detailed needlework.
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Hollywood has many heroines, but there was truly none like Carrie Fisher.
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They turn these heroines for young girls into over-sexualized male fantasies.
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The organization and its walkers find inspiration in heroines like Harriet Tubman.
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Think sci-fi heroines, cosplay queens, and even some epic animated characters.
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Again, a matriarchal tragedy sends our sisterly heroines on their magical adventure.
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There weren't really that many feminine heroines when we were growing up.
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Along With Me. Franklin compares Jackson to her escape-artist heroines, who
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We see a lot more women heroines than we've ever seen before.
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Belle, Anastasia, and Arielle were all my heroines with long, smooth locks.
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There are no villains, no heroines, no triumphs that are without struggle.
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Andy Mangels will write the adventures of these heroines from the 1970s.
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They were rarely the heroines; starring roles were reserved for white girls.
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What can people expect from your live set at Heroines of Sound?
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And after they do, they'll likely be called heroes, not heroines. Nope.
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The Good Fight is resistance porn with women as its rightful heroines.
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Instead, women stand as both the film's heroines and its secondary villains.
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The haircut transforms all television heroines into variations on an ur-woman.
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The plots, with victims transforming into heroines, now scan as easily feminist.
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The trio were dressed up as Disney heroines Belle, Snow White, and Cinderella.
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The heroines in Haifaa al-Mansour's movies share the same antagonist: restrictive societies.
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They both feature early scenes of their heroines texting loved ones back home.
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Its heroine, Natalie (Rebel Wilson) doesn't look like most other rom-com heroines.
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If that sounds like a lineup heavy on heroines, there is a reason.
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And she was very interested in crafting films with active, adventurous female heroines.
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Courageous heroines and deceptive femmes fatales abound in the Old and New Testaments.
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The illegality of same-sex relationships in Kenya isn't the heroines' only problem.
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I wanted to take them from the fringes and make them our heroines.
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Characters are disemboweled, heroines vomit bugs — the film thrills with gore and grotesquerie.
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Its three heroines are already busy navigating adulthood after bungling adolescence big time.
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Prada did: One that toggled between Hitchcock heroines and frogwomen, love and war.
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You still get those incredible heroines, but you get them less and less.
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Here are 20 of the fiercest princesses and heroines you probably never heard about.
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It keeps step with Sand's wandering heroines, her radical utopias and fierce intellectual independence.
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The sexual frankness of these heroines goes hand in hand with their general bluntness.
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Her heroines aren't the most wealthy or the most attractive characters in the book.
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Our rom-coms, and its heroines, better reflect the world we actually live in.
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" She finds her community in a place that promises "We Help Victims Become Heroines.
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Her heroines are plain and very powerful; they are Roman candles, agents of chaos.
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This is to say: everything about Killing Eve is as sharp as its heroines.
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Priscilla Oliveras, who is published by Kensington, writes romances with Latinx heroes and heroines.
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It possessed a female-empowerment blueprint, with the heroines banding together to battle villains.
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If you like plucky and articulate heroines, sepia-seeped aesthetics and folklore, try this.
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In a romance novel the heroines put everything on the line and they win.
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This piece offers seven simple steps on how to de-objectify drawings of heroines.
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Most heroines of 19th-century ballet are brilliantly active as dancers but dramatically passive.
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It's not fancy, but it wins you over with the determination of its heroines.
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Most rom-com heroines have to be a mess in one way or another.
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While most of her heroines are black women, the cast of characters are ethnically diverse.
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First of all, why exactly are our four heroines illustrated in this square-headed manner?
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"Austenian", to some, brings up associations of ironic social commentary and eloquent drawing-room heroines.
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Luckily, the Disney renaissance of the 1990s gave us many more diverse heroines to treasure.
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The days of safe adolescent icons, banal beloved heroines of eras recently past, are gone.
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There's a knowing behind Evie Frye, Samus Aran, the heroines of the Final Fantasy franchise.
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Maybe there's just some deep part of us that identifies with Houts' slightly antisocial heroines.
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"Extreme Times Call for Extreme Heroines" is the title of a work in the show.
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Anesthesiologists (anesthetists in the British idiom) are the unsung heroes and heroines of modern medicine.
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Her heroines are career women striding through glamorous realms of fashion, publishing, art and retailing.
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It's an illness memoir without saints; its heroines a flawed mother and her flawed daughter.
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The original was an artifact of the late-'90s "Buffy" era of empowered female heroines.
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Not only do young heroines work hard and well, they may even be the boss.
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These heroines reconstruct the famed "Lord of the Flies" narrative through their coven of violence.
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Dolores Price (in Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone") is one of my favorite fictional heroines.
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At first she bears more than a passing resemblance to several famous young-adult heroines.
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They are the witchy heroines kicking and biting and scrabbling their way to literary history.
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This time, our heroines have traded weed for 'shrooms, and oh boy, are they feeling it.
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Lawrence excels at playing heroines who escape terrifying circumstances, but even Katniss might find this unnerving.
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And I've never seen ass-kicking female action-adventure heroines quite like Chloe and Nadine, either.
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So, all of these truly, realistically dark paths lead our heroines to rob a grocery store.
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And for us, the heroes and heroines are the children we are making the films for.
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Unlike her heroines, who stride forward on killer heels, she preferred flats—Prada or Miu Miu.
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Dunham's most eye-catching boards come courtesy of feminine/ist art and heroines of all genders.
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In the 2000s, the most glamorous job romantic comedy heroines could aspire to was magazine writer.
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One of the great heroines of all time and a magnificent book filled with great dialogue.
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Her kinship with other 19th-century fictional heroines — Emma Bovary, Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina — is evident.
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Richardson has a habit of putting his heroines in harrowing binds, and "Clarissa" is no exception.
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In "Sweet/Vicious," the hypermasculine style of the heroines' revenge is played as a running joke.
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So, unlike the sensibly romantic heroines Blake admires, she is never confronted by her own hypocrisies.
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She surveys the hardy, cheerful female protagonists of books that she loved as a child, and muses upon how disconnected she feels from the heroines of adult novels, both because of these heroines' bitterness and constrained circumstances, and because of their whiteness (Tolentino is Asian American).
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PG: And so are the heroines in your novels, searching for a safe home in the world.
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Jason Porath compiled 200 of "history's boldest heroines, hellions and heretics" for his new book, Rejected Princesses.
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Our #IWD18993 #GoogleDoodle tells the tale of a young girl visiting 21899 historical heroines in a dream.
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In this she is unlike most heroines portrayed on the American screen in the 1940s and '50s.
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She sent plucky heroines into the hellmouth of dating with a determined smile and slyly sharp wit.
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Set in a universe led by women, the comic features female heroines that symbolize resistance and strength.
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Don't you want to see another of Martin's heroines kicking ass and taking names across multiple continents?
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"In the 1991 film, Belle was a real breakthrough among Disney heroines," director Bill Condon tells PEOPLE.
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For this performance, 10 dancers convey the stories of five important heroines from Indian mythology and scripture.
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The three young heroines of this new show actually accomplish far more than the title would indicate.
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Sure, some heroines — Nikiya in "Bayadère," Odette in "Swan Lake" — love and trust, are betrayed and suffer.
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Rudolf — like so many heroes and heroines of that century's dramas and novels — seeks redemption, escape, alternatives.
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Handmaid plotlines in The Testaments are there mostly to propel our new heroines' emotional and intellectual journeys.
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And Robyn, thank goodness, is a vast improvement on the milquetoast heroines of the "Magic Mike" franchise.
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Nakedly, these heroines now re-enact private romance before people who have known them their whole lives.
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Like many Green heroines, Alaska is more a beautiful puzzle for her romantic lead than a person.
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Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan — the first to ratify the 19th amendment — have created exhibitions highlighting local heroines.
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The women had the slightly shell-shocked quality that I had come to recognize in Almodóvar's heroines.
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Her scheme succeeds, through a supernatural logic reminiscent of the redemptive self-sacrifices of various Wagner heroines.
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Milan is known for historical novels containing progressive social elements like interracial relationships and proto-feminist heroines.
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Few movies showcased heroines who showed more guts and ingenuity than many of the men around her.
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Felicity Jones is a fine addition to the "Star Wars" tradition of tough-minded, quick-thinking heroines.
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"Female Chauvinist Pigs," out in 2005, wondered just how liberated the heroines of "raunch" culture actually were.
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In addition to giving us heroines, film has encouraged and sustained the mythical quality of France itself.
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This week, I was honored to have one of my heroines, Christine Pelosi, endorse me for DNC chair.
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It's not a coincidence that the Kardashians and other mainstream heroines have become symbols in independent feminist art.
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But, on Sunday, Jolie proved that women don't need guns or short shorts to be ass-kicking heroines.
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Her haircut, like Lane describes, features blunt bangs, which are something of a trend among heroines right now.
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Jessica Rothe should be in the next crop of regular teen-movie heroines, and should get very rich.
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Like its source material, Before the Storm is strongest when it explores the relationships between its young heroines.
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So, when you're seeking a new batch of heroines to spend a few hours with, look no further.
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I think it's hard for studio executives that are male to imagine women as heroes, heroines, as directors.
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It's hard not to think of them as ideal heroines for the current anti-glass-ceiling #MeToo moment.
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The existing heroines don't have the same variance of personality, origin story, or character development as the heroes.
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While some stories describe sex that doesn't seem entirely consensual, the heroines still get something from the interaction.
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Street Heroines, helmed by director and producer Alexandra Henry, covers over three years of careful observation and filmmaking.
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" And, she added, "I—we—owe a huge debt of gratitude to the #MeToo and Time's Up heroines.
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This month Dalt will be taking her experimental music to the stage at Berlin's Heroines of Sound festival.
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"After the comic-book heroes came the heroines, who were really sexy in those days," Mr. Ramos said.
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"Strings soar, teeth are gnashed, heroines throw themselves across beds," Elizabeth Renzetti wrote in The Globe and Mail.
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Garabedian is humble but ambitious; the figures in his paintings are monumental but gawky – relatable heroes and heroines.
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Once we've gotten the public figures taken care of, it'd be nice to celebrate some low-profile heroines.
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Here our heroines do — and we finally get a perfect tale about the songs of ice and fire.
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Her heroines are not all spinsters; Wilmet Forsyth in "A Glass of Blessings" (1958) is married, contentedly enough.
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My mind returns to one of the three heroines in Christopher Wheeldon's "The Winter's Tale" (Royal Ballet, 2014).
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Joan defiantly leaves us wanting more, whereas Wolitzer's other heroines left us wanting maybe a teensy bit less.
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Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes continues at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (25 Evans Way, Boston, Massachusetts) through May 19.
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She constructs a world full of female heroines, where centaurs become centaurettes, and mermaids have legs – and vaginas.
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What makes the trope more or less work in the end is that Novik's girls are not just heroines.
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" In the 19363s, she created one of TV's first career-woman sitcom heroines in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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In that way, Lindsey is surprisingly like Austen's own heroines, who watch the people around them with keen eyes.
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She also has a girl squad of her own, sharing her Beyoncé cover with fellow heroines Carol Danvers, a.k.a.
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Through her mobile games, she emphasizes female protagonists and heroines instead of vixens or princesses in need of saving.
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In the series, Highness, Diallo incorporates the braided headpieces of Joanne Petit Frere to make images of new heroines.
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Here, she revisits one of mythology's coolest reptilian anti-heroines, Medusa, examining a less-recognized part of her story.
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Funds have also helped us tell the story of one of one of our greatest American heroines - Harriet Tubman.
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The heroines all are sorted into categories, realize the government is evil, and spark rebellions using memorable hand signals.
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"You are my heroes and heroines," Attorney General Janet Reno said at a victims'-rights conference in August, 23.
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As with many of Denis's heroines, and Denis herself, the pleasure Dalle's character experiences is not far from fear.
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"Between the ages of six and twelve, I played most of the great Shakespearean comedic heroines," she told me.
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Her story is sketched out in a new book, "Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History" (Simon & Schuster).
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At the end of the day, history is replete with unsung heroes and heroines in the multicultural media space.
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Beauty is one of the few really active, take-charge heroines in the fairy tales that we know well.
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These heroines have their own darn horses, and they invite their chosen heroes to come along for the ride.
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The heroines both have magical powers, but want nothing more than to fall in love and just be normal.
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Lucia (opera) and Giselle (dance), like many heroines before them, are suddenly catapulted out of ordinary consciousness by heartbreak.
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Both of these models have served as templates for romantic heroines -- and arguably, many women's approach to dating -- since.
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Rather, it is a feel-good drama about unsung black heroines in the NASA space race of the 1960s.
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By the time I was in high school, I had left many of my romcom heroines in the past.
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Unlike other heroines in movies of the same era, Sarah seems perfectly comfortable being left to her own devices.
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Schaefer also cosplays as villains and Disney princes, but you can tell his heart lies with the Disney heroines.
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But place a lot of one- or two-note heroines side by side and you gain a choral richness.
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It was also a good time for female heroines, with both Wonder Woman and Brenda Starr getting their start.
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In many Grimm fairytales, for example, you'll find heroines whose golden hair signals "youth, innocence, purity, and cleanliness," Pitman writes.
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Of course, while unruly kid-lit heroines can be appealingly disruptive, they never cross the line into being outright threatening.
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And I'm pretty sure our heroines will figure it out; The Bold Type is still a TV show, after all.
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It's significant that so few of Knightley's historical heroines to date achieve what can properly be called a happy ending.
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Guess Hollywood got the memo that audiences are responding to big-budget films partnering kick-ass heroines with female filmmakers.
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One of the greatest heroines of Victorian literature, Marian is introduced in Collin's novel through Walter Hartright's rather voyeuristic eyes.
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy To be clear, female action-adventure heroines of a certain type are nothing new to games.
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But, as is the case for all Shondaland heroines, Andy's daring idea turns out to be the only correct choice.
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Her heroines span social backgrounds and generations, and are captured with their treasured possessions of books, photographs, cats, and houseplants.
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For their strong heroines, their senses of humor, and their sex appeal, these rom-coms certainly have a broad appeal.
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IN CLASSIC gothic romances, narrators are unreliable, heroines vulnerable, seducers potent and the settings bleak, imprisoning and full of secrets.
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I think there's definitely room for that in the world, and I would love to be one of his heroines.
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After pointing out that slasher movie heroines sometimes act silly, she is stabbed by Ghostface right in her movie seat.
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But there are still plenty of trials and tribulations facing the three go-getting heroines of Freeform's The Bold Type.
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Indeed, today's Pavarotti is a handsome German tenor named Jonas Kaufmann, while Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais reigns as Puccini heroines.
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Twice, the priest invokes the Virgin Mary "fulfilled as a mother and as a wife"; the heroines are mostly neither.
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And will liberal Oscar voters really be eager to reward a movie that makes flawed heroines of Fox News personalities?
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More importantly, the cultural meaning of witches changes over time (as with the feminist effort to reclaim witches as heroines).
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The only vengeance enjoyed by these fairytale heroines is the freedom of speech conferred by their expired non-disclosure agreements.
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Armani presented short skirts in shiny patent black and floaty short jumpsuits that looked like skirts for "high-tech heroines".
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In the fairy tales most of today's Americans are familiar with, the heroines don't tend to do all that much.
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Authors like Nancy Garden, Jacqueline Woodson, and Francesca Lia Block all highlighted gay undertones in their young heroes and heroines.
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After all, aren't fairy tale heroines famously passive; don't they always leave their destinies in the hands of their princes?
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Such emotional whiplash creates that other cliché — of the tragic, fallen heroes (or heroines) broken by the horrors they've witnessed.
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Willa, who calls to mind scrappy heroines of young-adult lore, finds herself in thrall to the other brother, Patrick.
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They play with dolls and compose torrid stories of backstage dramas in which plucky blue-eyed heroines save the day.
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This YA sequel to last year's Cruel Prince features one of the most appealingly ruthless heroines I've ever come across.
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Among them are images of dagger-wielding, leather-clad heroines and a cult-like nude dinner party laced in barbed wire.
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The show will revolve around two young women, allowing them to be heroines of their own horror story — or, maybe, villains.
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Holocaust survivor Hannah Beker, 79, has fingernail polish applied during a Beauty Heroines event in Ramat Gan, Israel, on April 9.
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Drew Barrymore has had an odd career because she's equally talented at portraying rom-com heroines and at portraying huge weirdos.
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But Disney heroines were always more varied than detractors would have it, and certainly have become more so as of late.
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THE DOUGHTY heroines who cleared the debris from Germany's ravaged streets after the war were known as Trümmerfrauen, or "rubble women".
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All of its characters, from the heroines to their dirtbag peers, are presented at their rawest, for better and for worse.
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Rather, we see our heroines defeat the monster in one fell swoop and then enjoy their well-deserved happily ever after.
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Did he assume his diminutive heroines would need such natural, anatomical, male "equipment" or "armor" in such display-of-strength encounters?
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So many of my other fictional childhood heroines were tree-climbing tomboys who hated dresses and I couldn't relate to them.
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By now, even non-viewers could recognize the long silver hair of Daenerys Targaryen, one of the show's most important heroines.
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While we would love for all of this darkness to stop infecting our heroines, it seems Hanna may be up next.
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The propensity of its heroines to kill in self-defence is atypical—but their disinclination to use shelters remains sadly realistic.
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Wonder Woman is stronger than Hercules, wiser than Athena, and one of the longest-running comic book heroines of all time.
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We are used to fairy tale heroines being saved by handsome princes, but Beauty doesn't need a man to save her.
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But as it turns out, Ms. Raja's history is very different from those of her heroines, Elena Greco and Lina Cerullo.
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Any attempt to make genuine feminists out of his heroines struggles, because they all, ultimately, serve Wagner's own visions of femininity.
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We've seen the heroes of mystery-thrillers worry about their investigations putting loved ones in danger, but heroines not so much.
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Andrews's teenage heroines would star in filth beyond your wildest imaginings: bare-butt spanking, torrid incest, rape-to-romance story lines.
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Fairy tale heroes and heroines often work best as dream figures, or visual one-offs, which made animation their perfect medium.
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I remember Louisa May Alcott's heroines — the March sisters — more vividly than some real people I dimly recall from those years.
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Heroines and striking female figures are not new in Vietnam — they have played an integral role in Vietnamese history for millenniums.
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Everyone wants to work at the telephone company, and our four heroines are among the lucky few; one also commits crimes.
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To suggest that Ms. Hallenberg's artistry has been limited to the heroes and heroines of the Baroque, however, would be unfair.
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They are leading the way to a new world peopled with heroines created by and brought into the world by women.
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So, before they attack, the "Sweet/Vicious" heroines extract clear confessions that no courtroom or campus panel could hope to obtain.
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But this doesn't mean Aiken's works imply that Austen's heroines are not courageous enough — or that Austen lacks some crucial perspective.
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I'm partial to 19th-century novels, and I envy their heroines, who spend their days reading and needlepointing and playing piano.
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The women pictured on the design team's mood boards often aren't Birkins or Bardots, but Woody Allen heroines like Annie Hall.
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" Beverly Jenkins, whose historical romances with black heroes and heroines broke ground in the mid-'90s, said, "Writing, for me, is truth.
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But those HBO heroines are not alone, as sexual violence seems to be the go-to threat for all women across television.
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Birds of Prey will further build out that world with its street-level heroines and the mythology and origin story of Quinn.
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LONDON — Young women should look to Shakespeare's heroines rather than reality stars like Kim Kardashian West, a top UK headteacher has argued.
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When the show's two heroines, Abbi and Ilana, unexpectedly meet Clinton at her New York City campaign headquarters, they become starstruck fangirls.
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Katherine Poe's portraits are based on archetypal manga heroines, but she applies the style unevenly, creating a gap between expectation and effect.
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After all these years, Danspace Project is not just a theater for the choreographer but also a home for her unpredictable heroines.
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In Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend," the two child heroines have a shared copy of "Little Women" that finally crumbles from overuse.
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There have been resilient, even stoic, heroines in the Dardennes' earlier films, but they haven't been middle-class interlopers like Haenel's character.
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At many crucial points, they're given showy, superficial Soviet revisions of the original choreography, depriving the opposite heroines of ambiguity and depth.
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Tomboys, from Jo in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" to Jo on Norman Lear's 1980s sitcom "The Facts of Life," are heroines.
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In my alt-Hollywood fantasy, female and male filmmakers would have worked side by side, perhaps giving us unimagined stories and heroines.
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But by bringing Ms. Hamilton back to the "Terminator" series, he's breaking new ground in his use of action heroines once again.
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In Ms. Pyle's works, female heroines may fall in love, but they're not weak, timid or virginal; they stand up for themselves.
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"'Girl Pictures': The Land of Heroines" by Riley Weaver I've recently been pondering the extent of my anger, or better, lack thereof.
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If there's to be serious change, the entertainment industry has to do more to make women the heroines of the world's stories.
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The nameless heroes and heroines who are emergency medical technicians deserve more credit and pay for the lives they save every day.
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This reflects the challenge that Austen's characters, especially her heroines, face in seeing things as they truly are, or in speaking out.
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The art world, with its seedy characters and sultry anti-heroines, finds a home in the thrilling darkness of the detective genre.
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But it does at least let the story be a little more complicated than ambitious blond heroines versus a perverted old troglodyte.
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In a fantasy culture short of complex heroines, Benioff and Weiss spent seasons building Daenerys into a woman with whom we could identify.
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Related: Here's a Powerful Tribute to Studio Ghibli's Badass Heroines BBC's 'Sherlock' Is an Ode to Perfect Symmetry Pixar's Secret to Nailing It
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And she may not be entirely wrong about that: Traditionally in pop culture, try-hards are villains or sad also-rans, not heroines.
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They're not trying to learn anything or evolve to become proper heroines; they simply are who they are: terribly flawed, weak, unhappy, angry.
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He knows how to write action heroines that are complex in addition to being total badasses — I mean, does Buffy ring a bell?
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"What's common to all the heroines is their thirst for life, their desire to break through conventions and ability to inspire," Gorle says.
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In The Great Alone, Hannah's intrepid heroines are Leni and Cora Allbright, who move to Alaska at the whim of Allbright patriarch, Ernst.
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Her ideal woman possessed characteristics from TV shows featuring her childhood heroines, from Wonder Woman to The Carol Burnett Show to Charlie's Angels.
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We need more women on television, not because we need more heroines, but because we need to see women as they actually are.
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Sickness aside, fans were blown away by Ridley's portrayal as one of the film's newest heroines – and director J.J. Abrams couldn't agree more.
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Confidence has always seemed like a thing for determined people, for people who are fearless or brave — something for heroines in YA novels.
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That in turn is sure to spawn a new spate of complaints, from all the fans of history's heroines Mr. Lew passes over.
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Amy Jellicoe was as unlikable as heroines got on TV in 2011: a high-strung, self-obsessed do-gooder who exudes weaponized optimism.
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Many frequently recycled tropes, like villains concocting dastardly plans to marry heroines, were just a harmless part of a story before all this.
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He decided to "skip the heroes and heroines, to write a movie containing only villains and bawds," as he recalls in his memoir.
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The odds are always against the heroes and heroines of horror films, but what if they have an additional challenge, a physical disability?
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It's not for nothing that one of its heroines, Sookee (Kim Tae-ri), is a pickpocket, though that's getting ahead of her story.
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She is also being featured in two dynamic docs about women and graffiti, the recently released Girl Power and the upcoming Street Heroines.
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But this new woman Doctor is expected to have a trait that many of those other heroines don't have: a sense of humor.
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After teasing it for two full seasons, the two main heroines finally are in one small ship working together to escape certain death.
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This spring, you could feel the Ballet Theatre audience's idea of womanhood widening as each of these two heroines became more fully herself.
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Feature After 17 years, the author of the trilogy "His Dark Materials" carries on the story of one of literature's most indelible heroines.
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Ally falls for Jackson in the same way many movie heroines fall—by being offered validation as a balm for low self-esteem.
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The interactive digital stories published by KaZoom Kids Books have heroes and heroines unlike those in most children's works: They're black and Latino.
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I'd been reading books without black heroines, which nearly stripped me of the ability to write in my own voice, blackness and all.
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" But one officer stationed near the temple said the two women, whose names were given only as Bindu and Kanakadurga, were "real heroines.
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His scripts, which generally excoriated India's upper castes while creating heroes and heroines out of the impoverished and championing secularism, were considered pioneering.
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Both series also put their working class heroines in the glamorous throes of big business and the fictional handsome men who populate it.
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So, how do you make heroines out of characters that some in the audience will see as deeply compromised if not outright villainous?
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"Sridevi is one of the last great heroines of Hindi cinema who could hold her own against any hero," said SOAS professor Dwyer.
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With "Frozen" it created grown heroines with different once-upon-a-time stories, one sealed with a man's kiss, the other happily not.
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But in a larger cultural context, putting rom-com heroines in these kinds of jobs tends to create a strange disconnect from reality.
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Kuhn points to the massive visibility of Disney's Moana as a sign that Asian American heroines can be both culturally specific and hugely accessible.
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In Horizon Zero Dawn, our protagonist is Aloy, a determined young woman who shares traits with many of the best heroines from YA literature.
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Read These Stories Next:22 Movies Every Black Woman Should SeeThe Most Badass Black Female Movie Heroines 5 Podcasts Made For & By Black Women
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Metroid, the science fiction adventure series starring one of video games' first heroines Samus Aran, is a pillar in Nintendo's world of iconic franchises.
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But if you read or watch enough dystopias, you'll definitely be able to identify a pattern in their structure — and in the heroines' qualities.
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If you never see yourself in mainstream media, on the big screen, or even in the heroines of the latest YA novel, it's isolating.
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Our mistrusted politicians are so many Julius Caesars and Lady Macbeths, our ill-fated lovers Romeos and Juliets, our ingenious heroines Rosalinds and Portias.
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Shondaland has filled our cups to overflowing with no-nonsense heroines who cut through problems like a bunch of corgis through a snow trench.
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The massive 18-piece line features gorgeous images of some of your favorite Disney heroines: Rapunzel, Giselle, Belle, Tiana, Cinderella, Aurora, Megara and Esmeralda.
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It's easy enough to love heroines who don't want to be girls, or to fantasize about floating off and away from patriarchy's harrowing entanglements.
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Mysterious forces act on the heroines of Duncan's books, as their developing adolescent personalities become the ideal vessels for ghosts, specters, and otherworldly phenomena.
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She titled it "Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines," after a song she often heard in her youth spent in the very same neighborhood.
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As the two anti-heroines struggled to keep their footing in their male-dominated profession, the show's narrative path similarly struggled to stay steady.
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If things have started to shift it's partly because heroines like Katniss Everdeen and creators like Amy Schumer are helping redefine the female lead.
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Where "Arbus & West" is most potent is in its exploration of relationships between women, and the generation gap between its heroines' strands of feminism.
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We need to be able to project our own dreams and desires onto our fairy tales -- and Disney heroines have always provided that role.
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At the Museum of Modern Art, a recent film series, It's All in Me: Black Heroines, exhibits an acute awareness of this cinematic history.
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The heroines were a composite of Jane herself, who had been born into a respectable Long Island family but chafed at her milieu's prohibitions.
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The movie turns its heroines' journeys -- their inner lives as well as their professional ones -- into elaborate epics that defy easy classification or summary.
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For Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes, the painter, cartoonist, and graphic novelist Karl Stevens was called in to provide interpretive drawings of the Renaissance master's paintings.
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Her companion works display both affection and gentle admonition, and are sometimes as hard on Austen's heroines as Austen could be on their associates.
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Katherine wants so ferociously, and as a result puns so viciously, that she became one of Shakespeare's most indelible heroines apparently against Shakespeare's will.
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After all, the basic form hasn't changed a whole lot since Austen's intelligent heroines were fighting with and then eventually marrying their dashing suitors.
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At the shoot, the photographer and I muse about whether Silvers looks more like Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, or one of Silvers' heroines, Julia Roberts.
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On the contrary, B-movies often showed women as mere appendices to men: starlets, tragic sentimental heroines, love interests, sidekicks, exotic, weak, you name it.
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Many of the characters were more muscular and curvy than stereotypical comic book heroines, but in a way that Nord felt reflected their super strength.
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The super-team of DC heroines has appeared in many configurations over the years, though Harley hasn't ever been a formal member of the crew.
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These sequences are efficiently assembled, if never exactly exciting, and it may seem churlish to complain when there are so few female heroines in blockbusters.
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These heroines may not need saving, à la damsels in distress, but while that is a definite step forward, I'm not sure if it's enough.
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That's changing, but it's vital that young Black children are exposed to movies that show people who look like them as the heroes and heroines.
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From bite-sized caprese salad to an adult take on "ants on a log," these spreads would make all your favorite rom-com heroines proud.
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We have no doubt that the army of diverse superheroes and heroines are powerful enough to take down the embodiment of patriarchy that is Thanos.
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While Hollywood preferred big-budget superhero flicks to smaller boy-meets-girl tales, many of us got reacquainted with the heroines of iconic rom-coms.
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After all the progress our two heroines made over season 2, Midge doesn't see the point in antagonizing one of comedy's most powerful forces again.
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So, the figure lurking aroud our heroines feels like a reminder there will always be lies to cover up and someone who will find them.
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We've rounded up the most inspiring, badass fictional heroines across literature, from Hermione Granger to Elizabeth Bennett to Zelie Adebola, to inspire your next costume.
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Related: Here's a Powerful Tribute to Studio Ghibli's Badass Heroines Gutter Poet Charles Bukowski, Animated and Uncensored [Premiere] Grief Sparks Creativity in an Animated Painting
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In the scene in which this happens, the show's three heroines are walking into the gleaming lobby of Safford Tower, the home of Safford Publications.
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As you click through each scene, you'll be immersed in the girl's imagination, watching her join the story's heroines on their epic adventures and discoveries.
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How does this woman, so dazed and daffy (like many Ginzburg heroines) — a woman prone to napping, not decisive action — arrive at this murderous point?
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"I'd weave a net out of us to hold all" the country, one of our heroines promises halfway through, long before we suspect she can.
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Starting with "Rosalinda" in 2010, the Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro has been making what he calls "Shakespeareads," modern-day stories inspired by the playwright's heroines.
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The cakes — which can fire many shots in sequence — are big sellers, and many bear the names of heroes and heroines from the Icelandic sagas.
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Bestselling works by writers like Milan and the aforementioned Cole feature diverse heroes and heroines and touch on difficult topics like immigration and sexual identity.
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The heroines, Medora and Gulnare, are captives — but you'd hardly know it when the ballet gives us its most absurdly splendid scene, the Jardin Animé.
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Natasha. Eliza. Amélie. Three Broadway heroines, one drawn from a novel, one from a biography, and one from a film, have very different back stories.
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Her bold and lavish voice greets you right up front, and it keeps alive the spirit of jazz heroines like Carmen McRae and Anita O'Day.
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But for all that went right with Liberia's institutions, it is the Liberian people who are the true heroes and heroines in the 2017 elections.
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On its face, this show is a solid new entry in the Sherman-Palladino pantheon of wisecracking heroines and the assorted people who love them.
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The heroines of this dark, 80s-set fantasy are two mermaid sisters, Silver (Marta Mazurek) and Golden (Michalina Olszanska), with ambitions of swimming to America.
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With the sun simmering in your relationship house all month, the only shades of grey you'll stand for are the kind preferred by romance novel heroines.
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In fact, her heroines, often quick-witted and bright, sometimes seem more at home in the modern era, a time when expectations for women are broader.
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Over the past few months, fantasy and science-fiction TV shows have gifted viewers with three new leading heroines whose ethnicities are fiercely underrepresented in Hollywood.
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Girls who do choose to be princesses, Goldman says, are more likely to pick modern characters with more agency, compared to weak heroines of the past.
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Disney's Lucasfilm, run by Kathleen Kennedy, made women the heroines of its new "Star Wars" trilogy and a spin-off, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story".
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"Let's turn our anger at trolls into love for Leslie Jones and into strategies to protect all the heroines who don't deserve this b——-," she suggested.
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It takes the same well-worn tracks as its many predecessors, using haunted tapes, haunted houses, and two well-known horror heroines to tell its story.
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Then people took a second look and noticed this version of the heroines wasn't problem-free either, because it looked like Princess Tiana had been whitewashed.
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These heroines come out the other side of their supernatural coming-of-age narratives not "cured" or (more likely, RIP Carrie) dead, but stronger than before.
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And those family members — especially grandparents who are opting into a second shift of child rearing — are heroes and heroines who deserve our respect and support.
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Our heroines have been led to believe that it's the C.I.A. for whom they are seducing, kickboxing and assassinating so many men in so little time.
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The first seems more suited to operatic heroines (Brünnhilde, Norma) than to actual people, especially if those people are writers: Sontag, like most, was agonizingly insecure.
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It is, at heart, a romantic comedy — a genre we do not usually associate with Williams, the great dramatic poet of heroines damned, doomed or deluded.
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This is why young women such as my students can identify with Austen's heroines—because they live, for the most part, in a similarly limited world.
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In Sarah Burgess's contemporary comedy, Aya Cash and Gillian Jacobs are lobby heroines, rival Washington advocates with ties to Eisa Davis and Zach Grenier's competing politicians.
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In similar circumstances, the heroines insisted that their friend quit his job, which he did to his detriment, while the "doomed" firm sailed along just fine.
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We witness heroines and heroes speaking about cutting out their eyes, murdering their children, and burying their dead, intermingled with lengthy choreography sections and video projections.
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It's another Ferrante novel set in Naples — though Elena and Lila, the beloved heroines of "My Brilliant Friend" and its follow-up books, aren't the focus.
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Our heroines' journeys are contained in neat little arcs of empowerment and self-actualization, with no room for the messiness and ugliness of authentic lived experiences.
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Every weekend, millions of people around the world make the pilgrimage to their favorite sports team and watch their sporting heroes and heroines in the flesh.
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I love all of Jane Austen's major heroines — Lizzie Bennet, Fanny Price, Emma Woodhouse, Anne Elliot and Elinor Dashwood — and one of Tolstoy's heroes, Prince Andrei.
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They satisfy our narrative needs, resembling the long-lost relatives in Victorian novels who bequeath their fortunes to our heroes and heroines, making their lives bearable.
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The fact that Black Widow generated more audience members than Marvel's male superheroes makes yet another case against the assumption that movies starring super heroines aren't profitable.
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Who knows, maybe the heroines of Wayward Sisters will get to combat some of the horrors that never ended up materialising in the saga of the Winchesters.
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In her sermon, Guidry didn't mention Moses but she did draw upon two heroines from Exodus named Shiphrah and Puah, midwives who helped Hebrew women give birth.
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Never before had we had pot-smoking, sex-having, minimum-wage heroines who, time and time again, were both the protagonists and butts of their own jokes.
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Disney Channel Original Movies introduced us to to so many badass heroines, from Kirsten Storms' Zenon, girl of the 21st century, to Hilary Duff's titular Cadet Kelly.
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In the meantime you can enjoy their latest single, in which our heroines use peppy J-pop and metal to defeat a trio of corpse-bride sorcerers.
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A woman is running for president, athletes like Serena Williams are household names and pop culture is replete with feminist heroines our foremothers could only dream of.
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From female-helmed blockbusters like A Wrinkle In Time, to action heroines front and center in Proud Mary and Tomb Raider, women are going to kick ass.
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I am, however, excited to revisit one of my all-time favorite literary heroines, and to dive back into those moments when life seemed full of possibility.
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We've all experienced the soul-crushing agony of unrequited love — but no one turns those lemons into lemonade quite like the fictional heroines of our favorite movies.
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More and more frequently, horror heroines have gone from fearing their inner beasts to embracing them – seeing them as a symbols not of victimhood, but of empowerment.
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American feminism is a raucous mishmash of pop culture heroines, reproductive rights advocates, anti-rape activists and others, glued together by little more than fervent online debate.
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To deem unflattering the "big jeans" and "baggy gray top" I wear throughout the film is to suggest a preference for heroines in more tight-fitting clothes.
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Add race and ethnicity, as Disney is increasingly doing with its cartoon heroines, and this is a minefield, especially because animation by its nature deals in caricature.
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Her heroines, having trifled away the early chapters, take on striking new dimensions as war approaches and their sons head to the front, some never to return.
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Perhaps because of the nature of the HBO series, Amy isn't saddled with the same burden that so many of her fellow TV heroines are these days.
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But those mismatches, however cute, reek of male self-congratulation, whereas Wilde is unerringly focussed on her heroines, and on their fundamental right to get things wrong.
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More ordinary tragedies mark the heroines' lives in both Irene Hunt's "Up a Road Slowly" and "The High House," the first installment of Honor Arundel's Emma series.
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Read: The directionless heroines of Jen Beagin's "Vacuum in the Dark" and Halle Butler's "The New Me" follow in the footsteps of Ottessa Moshfegh and Catherine Lacey.
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I can't believe that the traits and instincts that inspired and sustained these real heroines are so deeply buried in women today that they can't be resurrected.
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In sanitizing and moralizing the tales, the Brothers Grimm, and later Disney — to a greater, and much more commercial, effect — watered down the feistiness of strong heroines.
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Captain Marvel, one of the formidable heroines of the Marvel universe, will be getting a hero's welcome in a new comic-book series that begins in January.
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With the exception of "From the House of the Dead," in which the chorus of male prisoners takes center stage, his late operas revolve around tortured heroines.
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A little bit to the north one of my all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, won a place in history by refusing to move an inch.
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In my personal pantheon of opera heroines who should have shown more grit before succumbing to their inevitable deaths, I have long reserved special contempt for her.
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Never before has an Asian-American woman been a protagonist in these films, and she breaks the spate of white brunettes who have been cast as heroines.
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The charming heroines of this French Canadian coming-of-age comedy are the lively 16-year-olds Charlotte (Marguerite Bouchard), Mégane (Romane Denis) and Aube (Rose Adam).
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The movie is particularly important for Black women, who get to see themselves as heroines in a way so few other Hollywood movies have allowed them to be.
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Such care also extends to the supporting characters, their relationships to each other and to our heroines, and to the intricate rules that guide this entire social hierarchy.
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She's used her talents to create portraitures of pop culture figures, from the heroines of Stranger Things to Frida Kahlo, and even a little puppet version of herself.
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Not the first queer YA novel, but the first major one to offer its heroines the kind of happily-ever-after ending previously seen only in straight romances.
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He believed in keeping the worst company, knowing it to be the best for his art; prostitutes were often his heroines, a perennial sticking point for the authorities.
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In another film, this could easily come off as an indictment of women's ambition, but Lanthimos revels in his heroines, never judging them, especially in their intricate battles.
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It serves as an introduction to the members, with vivid colors flashing as the camera, divided into four panels, alternates between close-ups of each of our heroines.
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Gina Haspel, the CIA's first female director, may have been thinking of Hall when she said she stood "on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim".
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We see in the game's trailer this eviction notice, so clearly our heroines are doing what they are to rectify this state of disorder in their lives... right?
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Plus, we have horror movies to thank for some of film's most empowered heroines and badass (if a bit twisted) villains — think back to Carrie and Ellen Ripley.
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In more recent, Disney-fied revisions of classic fairy tales, however, such elements of horror have been censored — and in the process, strong heroines have also been diminished.
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There seem to be three main styles contending for the titles of Most Terrible: Models in costume pose in bad lighting pretending to be love-sick YA heroines.
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Her heroines pass through familiar experiences — coming of age, falling in and out of love, pursuing creative ambitions — in unusual ways, generally indifferent to the rules of genre.
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Int the 2011 anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, its heroines collect trophies after each battle that (literally) cleanse their souls of the cynicism that they have accumulated.
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These movies watch their heroines suffer, fear, and bury it all under a calm surface of professional resolve, often in the face of horrendous violence and mortal danger.
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Television network PBS is commemorating the occasion in a special way, complete with the premiere of a brand new series dedicated to the unsung heroines of American history.
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Kate Hudson has pulled a G.I. Jane (and countless other badass Hollywood heroines) by completely shaving her famous golden locks ... and like all of them, she looks great.
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Penny Vincenzi, a British novelist whose sprawling tales of heroines, class collisions, family secrets and romance were regulars on best-seller lists in England, died on Feb. 21999.
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The heroines of Barbara McClintock's "The Five Forms" and Liz Garton Scanlon's "Another Way to Climb a Tree" are both adventurers, but even daring souls have their troubles.
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The eponymous heroines of two other recent movies, "Mary Shelley" and "Colette," hack through patriarchal society on their own terms — in the 19th and 20th centuries, no less.
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What made her so masterful was her rare ability to combine that satire with authentic romance and unforgettable heroines, who have real and complex desires of their own.
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"They were my first heroines," Anne Heggtveit of Canada, who won a gold medal in slalom at the 22017 Squaw Valley Games, told The Montreal Gazette in 22015.
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Behold, the furied heroines, those lightning rods of anger: the vengeful, the disgruntled, the violent, the irritable, the ungodly, the unloved, the intemperate, the temperamental and the unliked.
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Katarzyna Falęcka (Berlin, Germany) Beyond Metaphor: Women and War Histories of decolonization often cast women either as victims of colonial aggression or as heroines participating in nationalist struggles.
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She isn't a supermodel or an executive or a secret agent — other acclaimed heroines Bollywood has written for its actresses — and she's all the more relatable for it.
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We first see Jo (Saoirse Ronan) in her publisher's office, listening attentively as he admonishes her to make sure her heroines always end up either married or dead.
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The silhouettes evoked Hitchcock heroines — neat twin sets with feathered skirts, swinging coats in emerald mohair — but there were Victorian notes too, including opulent embroideries and velvet bows.
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The heroines of children's literature are often preoccupied with being good and virtuous, even when they are tomboyish and unruly, but Lyra was never particularly interested in those concerns.
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So, no, Rebecca isn't anything like the heroines McKenna used to write, whose problems had to be minimal enough that they could be solved in 120 minutes or less.
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The "Trust in China" show features celebrities reading the letters of more than 100 national heroes and heroines from 1921, the year the Communist Party of China was founded.
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"To deem unflattering the 'big jeans' and 'baggy gray top' I wear throughout the film is to suggest a preference for heroines in more tight-fitting clothes," she added.
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Several famous historical figures, including Rosa Parks, Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, and Jane Austen, were recognized, but it's the lesser-known, unsung heroines who have dominated the comments section.
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Marvel's heroines are gearing up for some serious action in Captain America: Civil War, and now the film's biggest stars are giving a sneak peek into their evolving roles.
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The girls we are supposed to like, the heroines, are always smart, but not in a threatening way; ambitious, but not in a showy way; beautiful, but effortlessly so.
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Brontë, born 200 years ago this month, endowed her heroines, particularly Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe, with similar disguises—their simple gowns cloaking an ardour for love and sex.
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More telling is the fact that both characters are instinctive paranoiacs, and that Aronofsky seems so quick to frame his heroines purely, and perturbingly, in terms of their hysteria.
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In scouring the world for our obituary subjects, we often gravitate toward unsung heroes and heroines who have managed, however quietly, to put a wrinkle in the social fabric.
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Phillips is also keenly aware of Spector's crimes and highly abusive tendencies, but remains drawn to the music by the voices of "heroines" like Darlene Love and Ronnie Spector.
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Romance novels released by big publishing houses tend to center on white characters, and rarely feature gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people in leading roles, or heroines with disabilities.
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And while many of the movies feature women who are the heroines of their own lives, the stories and their endings don't always fit contemporary feminist ideas and ideals.
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Mason takes the memorable female characters of classical myth — goddesses, prophets, rape victims, noble heroines, killers of family members, witches, Amazons, adulteresses and athletes — and turns them into ciphers.
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In novels like "Gone Girl" and its imitators — "The Girl on the Train," among them — the heroines are drunks and nuts; they are in other words, not like you.
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All our heroines have the agency to, at some moment or other, look at themselves in the mirror and reflect on what they see and whether they recognize themselves.
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Some of these girls have stories about incestuous attachments and murderous parents and witchcraft in politics that bring to mind those doomed heroines of tragedy, Phaedra, Electra and Medea.
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Many of her plays, including the Pulitzer Prize finalists "Becky Shaw" and "Rapture, Blister, Burn," feature heroines trying to escape the social immobility that locks them into dreary lives.
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This year's lineup includes Trish Harnetiaux's footwear-focused "Tin Cat Shoes," Will Arbery's plague-set "Plano" and Angela Hanks's "Wilder Gone," about the heroines Mabel, Thalia and Peanut Brittle.
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Ms. Smith conveys her heroines' youthful passion for dance — a calling that only Tracey has the talent to seriously pursue — and the push-pull of their passive-aggressive friendship.
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Just when the film allows us to be comfortable in our heroines uniting to fight for their lives, it reminds us that not every woman buys into the concept.
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Ms. Suárez suffers with a dignity reminiscent of Bette Davis and other great screen heroines of the past, even as she surrenders to a longing that borders on mania.
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Dunn shows how we have been spared catastrophe by legions of unsung heroes and heroines working across a range of crops, from cassava to cocoa to rubber to wheat.
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So, for the next five days, Waypoint will be constructing its own loose mythology of gods and goddesses, avatars and heroines, twisting labyrinths and dark passageways to the underworld.
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This, of course, foreshadows the dour emotional state awaiting our heroines in the wintry first months of 2017, where the rest of season four takes place, according to Entertainment Weekly.
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Especially not when they're living in a Gen Y-style commune that brings together a coterie of young people from different walks of life, as our heroines end up doing.
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And they are willing and able to delve into the psyche of their heroines to address their budding, complicated sexuality and fully embrace their capricious bitchiness with thoughtfulness and charm.
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In this way, Izzy doesn't resemble 2018's most beloved heroines, like the high-concept heist planner Debbie Ocean of Ocean's 8 or the casual genius Shuri of Black Panther.
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It's a very good thing that I'm not a teenager on the verge of ruling Hollywood, and the following 29 future heroines, activists, writers, soul-searchers, and downright goddesses are.
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The second is centered on two anti-heroines who crave online fame to the point where they're murdering classmates and town figureheads in order to boost traffic to their blog.
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For fans of Guillory's warm writing and her intelligent, strong heroines who find adoring partners, The Proposal's existence is great news: It signals the start of a unified Guillory universe.
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Related: Here's a Powerful Tribute to Studio Ghibli's Badass Heroines A Peek Inside the Essential 'Cartoonists Of Color' Database A Stark Animated Short Sheds Light on Trans Discrimination in Argentina
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Episode 1: Viking Funeral We rejoin our heroines at the beginning of everything they've been working towards: the first official episode of GLOW (the TV show within the Netflix show).
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That's true in Perkins' book, as Makani faces a struggle that so many horror heroines have had to before: finding the secret strength within herself to fight for her life.
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Despite their differences in tone, both shows foreground a version of success for their heroines that has a lot to do with individual fulfillment and little to do with marriage.
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The men who torment the female heroines do so because they hate some part of themselves — a part of themselves they've been made to hate by circumstances larger than themselves.
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While the film was a critical and commercial hit, earning six Oscar nominations, Thelma & Louise was criticized for its portrayal of two heroines responding to male violence with more violence.
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Broad City's take on Clinton is that she is a kindred spirit to the show's heroines — someone who is not only powerful and determined, but embraces the weird in life.
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That meant we had to really dig through an enormous haystack of unrelated footage from that time, hoping that the camera would swing to the left and capture our heroines.
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The Queen, of course, dies just like the heroines Lilliet is so tired of playing, sent straight to hell by the hero — but that's not what you remember about her.
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It wasn't a surprise to see that had she shown up to the Grammys, she'd be dressed just like one of the most iconic romantic heroines in the western canon.
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When we laugh at Selena Montgomery's sex scenes or take shots at "relatable" stories or "likable" heroines or dismiss mysteries or fantasies, there are readers who hear us condemning them.
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There's a nostalgia and a sadness that underscores the over-the-top antics of our heroines, and the story beats feel appropriately sensitive to what the girls are going through.
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Mary Poppins is one of cinema's most timeless heroines — a no-nonsense nanny who brings her young charges on whimsical adventures while subtly helping them learn to navigate life's difficulties.
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The fall broadcast-network premieres wrap up with a pair of dramas featuring pop-culture heroines with some years on them: Batwoman dates to 1956 and Nancy Drew to 1930.
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There had been fears that these old-fashioned shows' takes on their heroines, who are both bullied by their love interests, might be out of sync in this #MeToo moment.
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Despite how attractive a glossy nude lipstick might look on the red carpet, it's these red-lipped heroines that seem to offer something different, more vibrant, more alive, more daring.
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"Hidden Figures," about unsung black heroines in the space race of the 1960s, received attention for Octavia Spencer's acting and a score by Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch.
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Both take place in domineering architectural settings, columns and pilasters rhythmically carving out the illusionistic space where the ill-fated heroines appear again and again as their tragic stories unfold.
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As with 1984's Ghostbusters, the spirits eventually take on weirder and weirder forms, to the point where our heroines are smashing their way through pirates, Puritans, and, yes, Slimers.
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Quick-witted, quick-tempered Kate is an early forerunner of later Shakespearian heroines like Beatrice and Rosalind, never content to say a word when she can pun on it instead.
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Parrilla pointed out the fact that young women who grew up watching the series, and the complicated journeys of its many heroines, have been changed by these complex portrayals of womanhood.
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For two years, the visual development artists Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay and Brittney Lee designed and refined the costumes for Anna and Elsa, the heroines of Disney's "Frozen 2," due Nov. 22.
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More than one panel at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend made us think the world would be just fine if you left the heroines — both DC and Marvel — in charge.
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It's a shift that has made for more exciting stories — but it's also a change with a deeper importance: We've gone from damsels in distress to heroines who suffer no fools.
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The demands of closure, even on HBO, probably mean that the show's four young heroines will find some form of resolution amid the continual dysfunction and comic disasters of their lives.
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Although she starts like the heroines of many novels in being a noble-born teenager who rides off to become a "swordmaiden," Samatar quickly disabuses the reader of any romantic notions.
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Studio Ghibli has been a champion of strong female leads for decades, the full weight of which you can enjoy in film journalist Leigh Singer's supercut, The Heroines of Studio Ghibli.
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Chartier's Belle Dame, unlike other medieval heroines, rejects the overtures of her knightly suitor, protesting: "Je suis france et france vueil estre" (I am free and free I want to be).
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Jules is like many arch heroines, equal parts bombast and fragility, shaken and poured over ice, or in her case, poured over a husband (Gabriel Ebert) who is decidedly a Boring.
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"The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy Like several Hardy heroines, the rebellious Eustacia Vye is sacrificed for sexual transgressions; her suicide punishes a fallen woman a little too neatly.
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Early in the pilot for "Good Trouble," a spinoff of the family drama " The Fosters ," the show's heroines, sisters Mariana and Callie Adams Foster, visit their new home, in Los Angeles.
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Before there was #MeToo, the director Lizzie Borden imagined literal whistle-blowers: the heroines in this indie classic who bicycle around New York protecting women from harassers and would-be rapists.
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Think of her as one of the great novelist Jean Rhys's lost, promiscuous heroines transplanted to the 21st century, but with a devouring sense of humor that goes far beyond irony.
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Her heroines — invariably rich, thin, savvy, ambitious and preternaturally beautiful — are undisputed princesses, their castles the opulent hotels, condominiums, casinos and boutiques of New York, Paris, Beverly Hills and Monte Carlo.
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The only slightly annoying aspect of this is that, in August, Mr. Cameron made headlines by dismissing DC's "Wonder Woman" as "a step backwards" in terms of depicting big-screen heroines.
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CHIRA When I entered the working world, I too believed that the doors were open — and certainly my generation encountered so much more opportunity than the heroines who came before us.
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Karen Hallion, a Massachusetts-based illustrator known for her "She Series," stylized portraits of iconic female heroines from movies and TV shows, also said this NYCC was her best con ever.
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In her forty-five-year movie career, Isabelle Huppert has played classical and modern heroines, intellectuals and workers, for directors including Michael Haneke, Michael Cimino, Claire Denis, and Hong Sang-soo.
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The heroines of the show, a sweet, loopy friendship sitcom, are a raunchy toucan named Tuca (voiced by Tiffany Haddish) and her best friend, an anxious parakeet named Bertie (Ali Wong).
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But she's also eager to get back to writing the sequel to "The Life of Elves," which will bring together her two heroines, Maria and Clara, as a cosmic war breaks out.
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Urban and street art is a key focus, including a screening of "Street Heroines," a documentary about female graffiti and street artists, and in a public conversation about the legacy of 5Pointz.
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Filmed in lush locations around Colombia, Siempre Bruja reframes Hollywood's often limited takes on the occult in which the heroines are white, magic is alienating, and witchcraft clashes with other faith traditions.
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Good Girls Revolt, based on the real story of women fighting to be reporters at Newsweek in the '60s and '70s, has moved heroines like Emmy-winner journalist Connie Chung to tears.
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Her heroines are of different ages and professions but all of them are part of the archetype illustrating perfectly the woman's role in Russian society—or at least what's expected of them.
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They're also geared toward an older audience: Whereas the heroines in YA dystopias are often girls missing their mothers, the protagonists of feminist dystopias are often mothers themselves, fearing for their daughters.
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But it is especially apparent in the character of Motoko Kusanagi, who, like other anime heroines, boasts very long legs, large breasts that are exposed at every opportunity, and large, pale eyes.
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This agency makes Beauty nearly unique among the classic fairy tale heroines that most Americans know, and it forms the crux of the argument that Beauty/Belle is an empowering feminist hero.
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Another of-the-moment element of "Charmed" is that its heroines are all Latina, something Madeleine Mantock ("The Tomorrow People"), who plays long-lost sister Macy, said she still can't quite believe.
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And because young heroines figure so prominently, one notion emerges with particular clarity: Girls have the interior resources to do anything they want, and while a little magic helps, it's hardly necessary.
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More elegant and practical than the poncho and with better options for layering, capes in captivating cuts and either rich or technical fabrics have returned as the heroines of outerwear this season.
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The Season 5 finale of Grace and Frankie let us imagine how our heroines might've caved under these pressures, had they not moved in together and relied on each other post-divorce.
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They consistently reinforce outdated notions of what a woman can and should be, taking successful heroines who love their jobs and trapping them back in their hometowns, with Men Who Know Better.
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The original movie was released at the height of the "Where are the heroines in Hollywood?" debate and provided an antidote to the stereotypical female characters that typically show up in action films.
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Every time our heroines appear to be staring at the jewels for an unnaturally long time—so that they can eventually steal them—they pass off their fascination as an endemically feminine pastime.
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When "The Nameless One" — a monster that almost destroyed the world a millenia ago — threatens to return, three heroines must find a way to recreate the past and condemn the beast for good.
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Goss is returning to her classical world with European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, with her heroines traveling to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to rescue another young woman: Professor Van Helsing's daughter, Lucinda.
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And she said that she feels tremendous pride at breaking through the glass ceiling, that she stands on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim for their work with the agency.
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Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984 The Netflix sleeper hit and the classic horror film share heroines named Nancy; they also look alike and are both smart, brave and determined to kill the monster.
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As Valenti says, "the feminism that is popular right now is using optimism and humor to undo the damage that sexism has wrought," taking Amy Schumer, Beyonce, and Sheryl Sandberg for its heroines.
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You can never live the life you want to live but, like one of television's beleaguered heroines, always have to watch your plans smashed to pieces by the (unusually micromanagerial) hand of fate.
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Many of us have idolized heroines like Belle, Cinderella, Ariel, and Snow White, but it's hard to shake off storylines that rely on tropes that do little to present women as empowered beings.
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Here's a movie about female friendship and collegiality — which, of course, also entails rivalry, miscommunication and shifting allegiances — that feels no need to entangle any of its heroines in a heterosexual romance plot.
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"The Little Rangers" resolves on a note of forgiveness rather than vengeful violence, but its heroines are as tough and as trigger-happy as any comparable hero in a movie by a man.
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Ms. Clemens, in a part that recalls the embattled and idealistic heroines of David Hare, lends Hilary an appealing humility spiked with just enough ego to keep her this side of unmodulated piety.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From a schoolgirl who fights plastic pollution to real-life heroines, 800 Indonesian women are telling stories to change beliefs about girls, the project's organizer said on Tuesday.
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He may have a little too much Uncle Walt in him and not enough Hayao Miyazaki, whose Studio Ghibli movies like "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away" are filled with adventurous young heroines.
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Directed by Lee Sunday Evans at Playwrights Horizons, this production features grown women portraying the pubescent heroines, who demonstrate that down-and-dirty locker room talk is by no means exclusive to boys.
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" Nottage feels that what unifies her plays is their "morally ambiguous heroes or heroines, people who are fractured within their own bodies, who have to make very difficult choices in order to survive.
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You may not be sending John Glenn into space like the heroines of the best picture nominee "Hidden Figures," but you've got some other important calculations to do: solve our annual Oscars quiz.
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Though some on staff might argue the release of Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel has been the reason to slog through the rest of 2016, most of us can probably take a breather here.
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She was practically unrivaled in both physical strength and steel-willed emotional fortitude but also a far cry from the few and often grim female action heroines who had preceded her (see: Alien's Ripley).
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That last bit of backstory is becoming something perilously close to a genre cliche, also figuring in different ways into the backgrounds of the heroines of Gravity, Arrival, and, more recently, The Cloverfield Paradox.
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In this light, Blige's relationship with her fanbase makes her reminiscent of those tragic blues heroines from Gayl Jones novels, trapped in a cycle of trauma and disenchantment, at least in the public eye.
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From the little we can tell from this trailer, it sure seems like Hathaway is playing a different role from her usual earnest heroines — and seems to be having a great time of it.
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There have been lots of TV-changing Black heroines (your Olivia Popes and Annalise Keatings) and white ones (here's to the woman who started it all, Meredith Grey), but nary a Latina handling things.
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Perhaps more than any other designer of the past decade, Marchesa is best-known for consistently dressing our equivalent of princesses — brides, socialites, and celebrities — as the heroines of our modern-day fairy tales.
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There's no lack of female heroines in comic books, and yet it seems that it's a lot easier for studios to greenlight a superhero flick if it's a man who will be in tights.
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It's been a slow road to self-realization for Disney heroines, but the old tropes have steadily been strengthened through films like Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Zootopia, and Frozen.
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Stripped-down white cube galleries have conditioned us to look with dispassion upon paintings like the large-scale ones here, which depict goddesses and nymphs, heroines and victims, with full breasts and bountiful thighs.
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The result allows Mr. Stoppard to effect his own Wildean and Joycean riffs on the material while at the same time naming the two women in "Travesties" for the young heroines of Wilde's play.
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By the end of the film, the convenience-store uniforms donned by heroines the "Colleens" (Lily-Rose Depp and Smith's daughter Harley Quinn) might as well resemble superhero outfits—all they're missing is capes.
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Fiction THE NEW ME By Halle Butler VACUUM IN THE DARK By Jen Beagin I've come to believe one can take the sentimental temperature of a cultural moment by looking at its novels' heroines.
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The novel of adultery, which dominates the second half of the European nineteenth century, might also be called the novel of unhappy marriage, its formal restlessness driven by the trapped restlessness of its heroines.
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When books with female protagonists do become public school staples, they tend to have emphatically tomboyish heroines, and they aren't particularly interested in thinking about femininity and what it means to be a girl.
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"Recalling iconic young heroines such as Malala Yousafzai, Bana's experiences and message transcend the headlines and pierce through the political noise and debates to remind us of the human cost of war and displacement."
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Such a formulation applied less and less to Adams's mature work, whose heroines are certainly concerned with their own happiness, romantic and otherwise, but tend to be unhappy each in her own lonely way.
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"Sridevi is one of the last great heroines of Hindi cinema who could hold her own against any hero," said Rachel Dwyer, professor of Indian cultures and cinema at the SOAS University of London.
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Her work examined racism, subtle class distinctions and a universe of prejudices that bound its male protagonists and its more numerous world-weary heroines to loveless marriages, drunken spouses, bigoted families and oppressive customs.
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"Sridevi is one of the last great heroines of Hindi cinema who could hold her own against any hero," said Rachel Dwyer, Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema at the SOAS University of London.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, already in the possession of one such painting, has beckoned others like it from around the world and installed them in a small but engrossing show, Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes.
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In both stories, the heroines call the police to check on their neighbors after witnessing something unsettling, but the police discount their accounts because they suspect the women of heavy drinking and being unhinged.
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It is a sign of how much China is changing that its cast of heroines encompasses not only the heroic harlots and villainous empresses of the past, but also a transsexual conservative talk-show host.
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But, at the end of the day, those heroines (even the recently rebooted ones claiming to be more "realistic") have more often than not ultimately still played to male fantasies — just in a different way.
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Like so many heroines before her, Kaira watches her old flame choose to be with someone else, and at a crossroads in the future of their relationship, she chooses an option more pragmatic than dramatic.
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Super MetroidUsing the Super Nintendo's limited graphics capabilities to its advantage, in Super Metroid you lead one of the video game's first heroines through atmospheric caves and caverns in this third outing in the series.
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Halloween's carving-knife-wielding Jamie Lee Curtis remembers full well that she pledged to put a stiletto through her eye (like one of her other scream screen heroines) if Hillary Clinton wasn't president come 2017.
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Our heroines clearly have a tough road ahead of them, as multiple newspapers run cover page stories on what "Amanda Gleason" said about national treasure Sophie Lennon, who, you'll remember, is an actual beloved celebrity.
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Von Trotta commented on the remarkable range of women's roles in her cinema, spanning not only famous heroines, such as Rosa Luxemburg (Rosa Luxemburg, 1986), or Hannah Arendt (Hannah Arendt, 2012), but also ordinary women.
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But the film, which features a film within a film starring two female heroines of its own, winds up feeling less like a historical drama and more like a distorted mirror of our own reality.
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One of the most popular is DC Super Hero Girls, an animated show, line of toys, and series of graphic novels and chapter books that follow teenaged DC heroines and villains at Super Hero High.
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"Women on the Edge ... Unsung Heroines of the Trojan War," which features Ms. Turner at select performances, takes an antiwar stance as Mr. Rioult focuses on Iphigenia, Helen of Troy and, in a premiere, Cassandra.
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I wrote about this idea in 2016 in the context of the effortlessly beautiful heroines of the WB and their scary, high-maintenance foils: The WB heroine is nearly always brunette, doe-eyed, and beautiful.
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The improbable Saturday-matinee challenges the show throws at its heroines and heroes work thematically — this "Das Boot," like the original, is concerned with honor and courage; with who breaks down and who rises up.
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Penelope faithfully performs the duties of all such conventional heroines, meeting her colorful neighbors, visiting the markets, sampling the cuisine, exploring the historical attractions and proving herself a better detective than the local gendarmerie. Formulaic?
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In the decades since "Little Women" was published, children's novels with black girl heroines have also been published — "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry"; "The Bluest Eye"; the works of Virginia Hamilton and Octavia Butler.
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Paying fastidious attention to the minutiae of moods, appetites and sleep habits (or those of a pet) is an activity long enjoyed by the rich and underoccupied, from Edith Wharton heroines to the Kardashian sisters.
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Ilana's fascination with blackness has a warmer feeling, in part because she is such an awed true believer when it comes to her heroines: as Oprah is to Liz Lemon, Nicki Minaj is to Ilana.
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Much like the suffering heroines they sometimes played, female stars triumphed and endured but also helped sustain a white, male-dominated system, a gilded-cage existence that at least some female viewers would have understood.
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From the start of this debut novel, Cala flexes her prodigious comedic muscles, managing to render the three friends both as sympathetic heroines and as the victims of lives more humorous than they would like.
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Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe bring poise and poignancy to the unsung heroines of filmmaker Theodore Melfi's revealing tale (Available to stream via rent or purchase on Amazon Prime, Fandango Now and Vudu).
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And so we move briskly on to the photographic and digital age of now, when empowered actresses and tennis players, heroines to us all, take their unborn offspring into their own hands with glamour and aplomb.
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Still, Cravalho feels lucky that Moana is part of the new wave of Disney heroines providing positive examples of female role models to young viewers, but still has reverence for the princesses that came before her.
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My '90s feminist heroines were Jessie Spano, Salt-n-Pepa, Kathleen Hanna, Gwen Stefani, Alanis Morissette, Courtney Love, and Daria — not all flawless role models, maybe, but not exactly a list of date-rape skeptics, either.
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What the French director's chosen film heroines lack in crime fighting accoutrements they make up for in emotional superiority to their male counterparts — and a mean punch of French style that's had global impact decades over.
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Aided by Saurabh Goswami's luminous cinematography, we see scenes like Sulu emerging in slow motion from the mist, like age-old heroines did, except that it's a haze of mosquito repellant being sprayed on the street.
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Thus they are enabled to enjoy the antics of Charlie Chaplin and other heroes and heroines of the 'movies,' like their more fortunate comrades, who can move about and attend the ordinary type of cinema entertainment.
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While Shanghai's celebrates the heroines of "Frozen, The Princess and the Frog, Brave" and "Tangled" with a walk-through display of murals in its center, Hong Kong's forthcoming structure will incorporate Disney Princesses within its architecture.
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While Harley will team up with a few DC heroines, a closer look at the movie's trailer shows some nods to the larger Batman universe, including the Joker's origins and a brief nod to the Scarecrow.
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Her honesty about female desire and her depiction of the affair of one of her heroines with a married man were considered scandalous in Ireland, where the book was banned, as were her next six novels.
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Coverage of the romance industry often dwells on the contrast between the nubile young heroines of the novels and the women who actually write the books: ordinary women with ordinary bodies, dressed for their own comfort.
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If Three Women is supposed to challenge the reader to respect its subjects' desires, even when they seem retrograde or degrading, then the reader must acknowledge these three women's inalienable right to act like tragic heroines.
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When I first started writing stories, my heroines all dressed in drag and wore baggy coats and newsboy hats — a fictional army of Natty Ganns embracing their outcast status and inspiring a journey of my own.
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Notwithstanding a lively turn from Charles Dance as a chatty brain-tumor sufferer and a perfect Charlotte Rampling as a tranquil guide to oblivion, "Euphoria" gives up the ghost well before either of its unhappy heroines.
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Weaving heroes and heroines from different television series into a seamless ensemble, the 217-minute production (it includes an intermission) offers 22 musical numbers that the audience is welcome to sing along with and dance to.disneyjuniortour.
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Whichever of these heroines you may be, you are guaranteed to end up in marital (often ducal) heaven, after dealing with one or another of the ingenious obstacles that create whatever suspense the genre can generate.
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The gender-neutral policies at Rajalin's schools ensure that stories, songs and dramatizations are screened or re-scripted to include non-nuclear families (single parents or same-sex couples) and heroines sweeping princes off their feet.
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Recent Bollywood movies have tried out, hesitantly and conservatively, versions of the Modern Woman: Heroines can have careers; they can live alone in the big city; they can even (if very rarely) have sex before marriage.
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Like its core of heroines — plantation slave women used as gynecological guinea pigs in the South of the 1840s — "Behind the Sheet," which opened on Thursday night, resists the natural urge to shout in righteous defiance.
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Even Nora Ephron's fantastic, flawed heroines — usually portrayed by a neurotic Meg Ryan — tend to have their more important shit together, save for that one annoying guy in their periphery who keeps insisting on being delightful.
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The entire plot of each book hinges on at least one potential love match, featuring well-developed, charming heroes and heroines, which makes it easy to engage with them on the level of a romance novel.
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Our heroines have taken over the Cortez (though, didn't The Countess leave it to Ramona at the end of the last episode?) and, flush with cash after liquidating their former employer's art collection, do a little redecorating.
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According to Deadline, the Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator will no longer write, direct, and produce a film about one of DC Comics' most iconic heroines, as it was announced he would back in March of 2017.
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They bought 85m copies of her ten novels in more than 50 languages because they loved how her heroines were survivors, not only of incest or sexual abuse, but of being fat, looked down upon, left out.
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However, while the horror genre may be best known for its heroines, we shouldn't forget that women are just as capable of being terrifying villains — and there are a lot more of them than you may expect.
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Women who have triumphed in tech despite the odds, like Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, and YouTube's CEO, Susan Wojcicki, could be the film's heroines, and so would the young girls learning how to code despite it all.
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Stranger Things is the perfect summer binge watch – fun, suspenseful and beautifully shot, with heroes and heroines that make you say, "she looks like this person I know" – and then they're up against a super creepy monster.
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But when a mysterious voice cries out to Elsa for help, adventure is on the horizon and our heroines are back in the fray, facing new demons, sporting fresh costumes, and redefining who they are to audiences.
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Grapevines, like the heroines in D. W. Griffith movies, are subject to every kind of trial: in addition to the pests that wipe out whole vineyards, more than sixty specific viruses unique to grapevines have been identified.
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Giving due weight to these episodes does not gainsay Gabriel's essential point about our heroines' strength but, rather, allows them their fears and complexities, and underscores the harsh and sometimes deforming cultural forces they were up against.
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There are discussions about the emotional lives of her heroines (most notably, Delia in "Troubling Love"; Olga in "Days of Abandonment"; and Elena and Lila in the Neapolitan quartet), and her thoughts on feminism and Italian politics.
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In this late masterpiece, the heroines of Rhys's early novels — heartbroken, drunk, caught in complicated choreographies of passivity — are replaced by an angry woman with a torch, ready to use the master's tools to destroy his house.
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To combat the notion that rape is a stain on family honor, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's first president, held the women up as "birangona," or "heroines of the war," and urged the nation to welcome them back.
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This formula reached its apogee in 1958 with Rona Jaffe's "The Best of Everything," whose publishing-house heroines find either (a) business success at the price of stunted love, (b) true love and wifey bliss, (c) death.
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GALANES What did you want when you were 21 — when you were Angel's age, one of the trans heroines on the show, who becomes romantically involved with a junior executive at the Trump Organization, of all places?
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" Sanders — who missed Tuesday night's vote — defended Warren, arguing that she brought "forth a statement made by one of the heroines, one of the great leaders of the civil rights movement of the United States of America.
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This formula reached its apogee in 227 with Rona Jaffe's "The Best of Everything," whose publishing-house heroines find either (a) business success at the price of stunted love, (b) true love and wifey bliss, (c) death.
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" Many readers of "Girl" will agree with the admiring assessment of Terrence Rafferty, who, in a review in The Atlantic , wrote , "Despite the obvious contrasts in circumstances, this girl isn't so different from O'Brien's young Irish heroines.
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Pictures of a 5-year-old girl from suburban Seattle, dressed up as her heroines — Angela Davis, Rosa Parks and other African-American women who fought for freedom — were shown at the International Center of Photography recently.
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In addition to a new chapter of the Mario Tennis series, it's also releasing action RPG The World Ends with You: Final Remix, JRPG Ys VIII, fighting game SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, and Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze.
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Parts of it are a little bit Beauty and the Beast: The two heroines both find themselves trapped in marriages to monstrous men — although there's reason to think that the girls might be a little bit monstrous themselves.
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The first one was hardly retrograde—Belle is far more assertive than decades of Disney heroines before her—but the filmmakers still make sure that Watson is the driver of all the action, rather than a mere responder.
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Whether it's shabby-chic, faded Hollywood glamor, or the staunch-yet-penniless vibe of the heroines in Grey Gardens, it seems society has always had a complex, car-crash attitude towards people and places that have gone downhill.
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She uses the stories of artists Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler as a kaleidoscope that both segments and weaves together a comprehensive history of the New York School's most mythic heroines.
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Ms. Corsini's film is shorter and less sexually explicit, but the salient difference is that she doesn't set her heroines' relationship apart from the rest of their lives, even though they are sometimes compelled to keep it secret.
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They exist across the political spectrum and infect every aspect of life — not just the bedroom — and manifest themselves in figures as distant from America as the blond-haired, blue-eyed heroes and hypersexualized heroines of Japanese anime.
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"The Inspiring Women Series pays tribute to incredible heroines of their time; courageous women who took risks, changed rules and paved the way for generations of girls to dream bigger than ever before," the dolls' product description read.
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"The Inspiring Women Series pays tribute to incredible heroines of their time; courageous women who took risks, changed rules and paved the way for generations of girls to dream bigger than ever before," the dolls' product description read.
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The Disney princess tradition has held onto its charm as it has changed with the times, widening its cultural frame of reference and allowing its heroines to travel down paths other than the one leading straight to matrimony.
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What makes the letters so darkly compelling, and such uneasy, thrilling company, is a different concern — the very one, in fact, that Hardwick pursued in all her writing, whether on Ibsen's heroines or on the civil rights movement.
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Sometimes modern fat heroines manage to secure the affections of men who aren't total losers — like Dumplin's Willowdean, or Isn't It Romantic's Natalie — but these stories are still selling boyfriends as the fat girl's ultimate, and only, reward.
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Here the curators have succeeded in offering up a new kind of film canon where black heroines are no longer saddled with the undue burden of representation, but free to just be as they are in the world.
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She came ready to stomp her Timberland heels on the necks of more traditional (read: white) heroines of the genre like Hudson and Reese Witherspoon, but it would have meant more had she played a woman of color.
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Batchelor, whose expressive face recalls the oft-doomed heroines played by Lillian Gish, turns in an Isabella for the ages: a woman who, in trying to rescue her brother, wonders if she is being abandoned by her God.
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The rom-com genre and its literary counterpart (the glossy "chick lit" of the late '90s and aughts, now largely phased out in favor of steamier New Adult) both like to use semi-artsy professions for their heroines.
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So why hasn't Kathleen Kennedy — the president of Lucasfilm, whose executive team includes more women than men, and who's been very outspoken about the importance of heroines — given the Trevorrow treatment to a woman, someone who "looks like her"?
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Murphy is not alone in the annals of TV heroines in terms of her show's willingness to risk alienating (male) audiences in the name of pursuing her character's truth, but there are very few other characters at her level.
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Some notable examples include the titles Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World, Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World and Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science — And The World.
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In most of Kusama's work to date as a director, she's made films rooted in genre conventions, but she's generally been more interested in what happens to the heroines who get knocked around than in what's doing the knocking.
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A pig who reminds us that our big bodies can be loved exactly as they are, can be objects of beauty, can be powerful and strong, and can carry us through life as the heroines of our own stories.
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In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules Karen Karbo Karen Karbo's In Praise of Difficult Women is the book to read whenever you're looking for encouragement to take a risk.
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We thought this is a great way to tell the country of origin story, to tell the history of Australia and how it came to be through the heroes and heroines, who happened to be convicts at the time.
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But it's also frank about the fact that our heroines face distinctly gendered perils—whether it be "credit-carding," the specific physical injury Camille suffers in the opening scene, or the chance of predatory behavior from their sexual interests.
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The delightful, still-startling "The Little Rangers" (1912) is an action-packed western centered on a male villain and two hard-charging heroines, one of whom looks about 12 and has a very big gun and long, fetching curls.
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MILAN — Maria Callas, the Greek-American diva known for her passionate portrayal of operatic heroines, astounding personal metamorphosis and tormented love life, has proved one of the most enduring style references for Italian fashion, from Valentino to Dolce & Gabbana.
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Mr. Morris drew up a "list of women with guns" who might make operatic heroines: Ulrike Meinhof, the German radical; Valerie Solanas, who shot Andy Warhol; and Jean Harris, who killed Herman Tarnower, who wrote the Scarsdale diet book.
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For the lightly bumbling heroines of bubblegum romances I grew up with, tripping into disaster was just a speed bump on the way to true happiness — not a way of life, as it was increasingly feeling like for me.
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Next up, Anna Faris stars alongside actress Rosie Perez in an episode of Kate Spade's Miss Adventure film series where they play modern day Kate Spade New York heroines and save the day when their holiday agenda doesn't go as planned.
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She becomes a protagonist in her own right, joining the pantheon of the unruly, disruptive, tomboyish heroines of kid lit: Laura Ingalls, Harriet the Spy, Jo March, and other untidy girls who function as walking wrecking balls to the status quo.
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The 21-year-old actress was officially inducted into Louis Vuitton's hall of heroines (after many notable fashion credits, both in editorials and on red carpets) in an ad shot by Bruce Weber as part of the brand's "Series 6" campaign.
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This season sees our three main heroines in wildly different places — Moira (Samira Wiley) in Canada, June (Elisabeth Moss) in Gilead, and Emily (Bledel) in the colonies — and so much of their press for the upcoming season reflects their circumstances.
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As the minutes on "Pattersky" ticked down, it seemed pretty obvious Jessica Day (Zooey Deschanel), was going to get the fairly romantic, conflict-free ending fellow TV heroines like Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) received before her.
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On sale at Pottery Barn Kids is the sweetest Disney Princess-themed tea set, which includes a pastel-pink kettle and four cups and saucers hand-painted with pictures of four of the best singing heroines movies have to offer.
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Lively, who has a history of taking fashion inspiration from Disney heroines, had previously made her love of Disneyland crystal clear when she and Ryan Reynolds chose to celebrate the holidays early in 2016 with a visit to the park.
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Broad City returned for its third season on Wednesday, February 17, throwing us back into the messy world of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer's stoned heroines and allowing us to bear witness as they continued to flail about New York City.
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The SoHo location feels like an oasis, with everything from the lactation room to the phone booths (named after fictional heroines like Ramona Quimby, Hermione Granger, and Lisa Simpson) designed with women in mind — something sorely lacking in most workplaces.
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Seen by Algerians as revolutionary heroines, they were part a network of women who carried explosives in a bombing campaign in 1956 that included an attack on the fashionable Milk Bar cafe depicted in the film The Battle of Algiers.
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"Catherine, Called Birdy" and "The Midwife's Apprentice" — a Newbery Honor book and a Newbery Award winner, respectively — give us heroines who, though quite different, struggle to define themselves against a backdrop of external circumstance they had no part in creating.
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Nor, like many other kid-lit heroines — Anne Shirley, Nancy Drew, Pippi Longstocking; the list goes on — does Gertie have a mom, or at least not one who will acknowledge her when they run into each other at the Piggly Wiggly.
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Because all those happy pills made Mr. Scott think about Jacqueline Susann, author of "Valley of the Dolls," and about how "dolls" was her word for the pills her heroines took to escape (or solve) the problems in their lives.
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We elevate a select few celebrity ambassadors of "good" aging — Mirren, Sandra Bullock, Halle Berry, Andie MacDowell — and turn them into not just avatars of covetable good looks, but fierce, audacious heroines who are celebrated for pulling off the near-impossible.
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The academy in which our heroines go about their basic training is run entirely by women, including General Sarah Alder (Lyne Renee), the highest-ranking officer in the Armed Forces who cut the deal with the U.S. government 300 years prior.
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The Brontës rendered their fantasy world in rich, obsessive detail, and the three girls in particular cycled through the archetypes that they would later render into their most iconic characters: the dashing rogues, the wise and underestimated heroines, the madwomen.
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That's why, in so many profiles over the years, Ms. Spade — or her brand, which she personified — was put in the same cultural bucket as everyone from Dorothy Parker and Nora Ephron to the fictional heroines Nora Charles and Holly Golightly.
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"The Inspiring Women Series pays tribute to incredible heroines of their time; courageous women who took risks, changed rules, and paved the way for generations of girls to dream bigger than ever before," Beck wrote in an email to CNN.
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Now the 23-year-old actress is playing one of the most familiar heroines in English literature: Emma Woodhouse, the "handsome, clever, and rich" young protagonist of Jane Austen's Emma who flirts with romantic disaster by meddling in other people's affairs.
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Her breakout role as Selena Quintanilla in 1997's Selena was critically acclaimed, and she's gone on to play some of our most memorable romantic comedy heroines in movies like The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan, and Monster-in-Law.
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It also embeds that history in daily life, departing from the televised spectacle of liftoffs and landings and the public drama of the civil rights movement to spend time with its heroines and their families at home and in church.
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And in the grand tradition of sharply funny sidekicks passed over for blander heroines like Lucy, every moment Emily Lacey's onscreen is another moment I remembered that she isn't onscreen all the other moments, and what a damn shame that is.
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Sex and the City, of course, owes a lot to Sex and the Single Girl, as do countless romantic comedies and romance novels (the recently republished Lace, for instance, intersperses sex scenes with long descriptions of its heroines' career development).
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And rather than privileging one way of being a woman over another, the show closed out the season with a portrayal of two very different heroines, as Arya and Sansa used their complementary powers to fight those who would drive them apart.
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A great view of combat in Xena: The show started out a little bit more straight 90s action-adventure, but as it progressed, it was campy as all get-out, and almost, kind of, sort of acknowledged the queerness of its heroines.
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But their ridiculousness doesn't erase the more low-key ease with which the other kids move through the world and up into the sprawling Encino house that marks the evening's final destination, the location of the party our heroines desperately want to attend.
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Alice in Wonderland didn't feel like a remake so much as a new version of Lewis Carroll's classic novel, strained through Tim Burton's house brand of morbid whimsy and the cultural landscape's contemporaneous obsession with young-adult-novel-worthy teen action heroines.
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Ronan played Jo March, arguably the most popular of all the March sisters, but her performance didn't just focus on the noble parts of Jo — instead, she gave a well-rounded portrayal of one of literature's most beloved heroines, flaws and all.
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If we push the reflection about heroines, or what might constitute the nature of a woman whose actions can be so courageous that she becomes superior and iconic, it becomes obvious that a virtual entity integrates with the founding principles of the Maison.
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Riffing on the meta-leanings of the first film, the sequence puts Sarah Silverman's Vanellope von Schweetz in the same room as a host of classic Disney animated heroines, from Snow White and Moana, to Frozen's Anna and The Little Mermaid's Ariel.
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Speaking on The Jess Cagle Interview, the Oscar-winning actress opened up to PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly's editorial director about the incredible influence Dorothy Vaughan, the first black supervisor at NASA, had — and what there still is to learn from these heroines.
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When last we saw our heroines, Hannah and Fran were a new a couple, Shosh had decided to accept a job offer in Japan, Marnie and Desi were on the outs, and Jessa was contemplating a career shift toward becoming a therapist.
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But she is selling stale goods in which adult women spout girl-power clichés and conform to norms that make it very clear what kind of heroines still get to fly high: young, thin, beautiful, perfectly coifed, impeccably manicured and profoundly unthreatening.
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The heroines, two teenagers named Colleen, are played by Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, and Harley Quinn Smith, daughter of Mr. Smith and Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, a co-producer of the movie who also performs here.
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Ms Franklin suggests that this toxic relationship not only informed Jackson's fiction (her heroines are all "essentially motherless" ), but also prepared her for marriage to Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic she met at university, who tormented her with his cruelty and infidelity.
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Rather than assume children of color will seamlessly identify with Meg as we do with the book or with the young, white heroines of the "Hunger Games" or "Divergent" franchise, this film gives us a different, racially inflected female future and present.
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"Our story lives in the tradition of all of the spirited, madcap heroines who have come to New York City and made it both the inspiration for and the location of their story," says Kristen Naiman, Kate Spade's vice president of brand creative.
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Think of 18th-century heroines — "La Nouvelle Héloise" and "Letters of a Portuguese Nun," women dying of and for love — or perhaps of "Story of O," also conceived as a kind of letter to a lover, whose plaintive, eroticized submissiveness A. often echoes.
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She is investigating the millennial forces that bred Fyre Fest, then she's filming an audition tape for reality TV. She is identifying the unjust expectations that weigh on literary heroines like Little Women's Jo March, then she's humping the floor doing barre.
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I fell in love with Anna, and she joined my private pantheon of tragic 19th-century heroines: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest and Henry James's Isabel Archer (in "The Portrait of a Lady").
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Favorite heroines and heroes: Meg Murry in "A Wrinkle in Time," Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird," Max in "Where the Wild Things Are," Lucy in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings" and Nancy Drew.
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If his later heroines Rosalind and Beatrice and Viola are Katherine's descendants — and there's a solid argument to be made that they are — then in the long run, Katherine was the one who tamed her male author, not the other way around.
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Are you really going to stare a tiny girl ghostbuster in the face and tell her that her new heroines only exist because Dan Aykroyd didn't get the sequel he wanted, that movie studios are greedy, that Melissa McCarthy is a "human fat joke"?
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"The Breast Issue" begins with our three heroines, Kat Edison (Aisha Dee), Sutton Brady (Meghann Fahy), and Jane Sloane (Katie Stevens), at a Breasts Are Not A Crime protest, where a group of women plan to ditch their shirts and go topless in Central Park.
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The film isn't concerned so much with delineating between good and evil — Lupita Nyong'o's Nakia, one of the film's heroines, has a worldview adjacent to Killmonger in terms of Wakanda's isolationism — as it is making clear the circumstances that have shaped these characters' worldviews.
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And even though her scripts occasionally got to draw blood — especially The Devil Wears Prada, her biggest hit to date — it wasn't until Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that she got to unleash the full range of passion and anger that can make for truly memorable heroines.
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It's choosing Eleven from Stranger Things over familiar heroines like Princess Leia; it's going as goth "Formation" Beyoncé over "Single Ladies" Beyoncé; it's taking a classic Pokémon and evolving it into your own — and maybe dropping in a pun or two along the way.
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A study done about the connection between an increase in female archery interest after the debut of Hunger Games and Brave — two movies that depicted heroines who were archers — found that the number of girls participating in national archery competitions doubled from the previous year.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Heroines in the "Star Wars" science-fiction movies dress more skimpily and grow more helpless under the force of love, according to a study released on Tuesday showing two of the strong female leads lose power when romance strikes.
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Whatever the case, a growing collection of movies sees the feelings generated by the pressure placed on young women – anger, guilt, shame, fear, self-loathing – explode in a bloody fashion, catapulting their heroines out of the realm of reality and straight into mythological waters.
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A spokeswoman for Harlequin said the publisher was "working to increase representation and inclusion in our stories, as well as in our author base," and cited recently published works that feature African-American and South Asian characters, gay and lesbian characters and heroines with disabilities.
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BOOK REVIEW A Children's Books essay last Sunday about "malt shop novels," stories about teenage heroines' romances that were published between the 1940s and the mid-1960s, misstated the given name of a woman who read thenovels as a teenager and again as an adult.
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Ms. Feiffer — whose earlier works include "I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit of the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City" — is a virtuoso in creating self-lacerating heroines.
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The exhibition's excellent roster of artists includes my personal heroines, such as Louise Bourgeois, Betty Tompkins, Tracy Emin, Sophie Calle, Joan Semmel, Susan Silas, as well as Herlinde Koeble, Eunice Golden, Aude du Pasquier Grall, Anna Jermolaeva, Alicia Framis, Anke Doberauer, ORLAN, and Julika Rudelikus.
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But John, with his flair for saccharine cuteness and his insistence on treating his conquests like romantic-comedy heroines, didn't like just to play or cheat, and he certainly didn't like any of his girlfriends to suspect that they didn't have his full attention.
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In a career that began in the late 1960s, Ms. Norman sang the title role in Verdi's "Aida," Wagner's heroines, characters in Janacek, Poulenc, Bartok and Strauss operas, and Cassandre in "Les Troyens" by Berlioz, in which she made her Met debut in 1983.
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She wore a quietly elegant beige-green kimono, her hair boyishly cut above her ears, a far cry from the image of a Western-style beauty that made her one of the heroines of the golden age of Japanese film in the early 1960s.
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Meanwhile, the heroines, who narrate alternating chapters, react with the same agony to both the minor crises (like learning that your ex has a new favorite place to eat caramel walnut cake) and the major ones (like the attempted extermination of an entire population).
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That The Bold Type is willing to let the careers of its three heroines be their love stories, to fully center their ambition and their professional growth as the most important part of their character arcs, is what makes it feel so fresh and so compelling.
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Now, Quinn will get her own origin story: Birds of Prey is about how Quinn joins up with three heroines — Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) — to save a young future superhero known as Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco).
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Not only does kawaii encompass the army of Japanese mascots, but a world of fashion that has adult women dressing as schoolgirls and schoolgirls dressing as goth heroines or Lolita seductresses, giving rise to ero-kawaii, or erotic kawaii, a mash-up of cute and sexy.
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In two minutes' time, Broad City's heroines (played by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer) take refuge in their porcelain sanctuaries, peeing, puking, eating pizza, dancing around in Madonna costumes, shaving their pubic hair, straightening their pubic hair, hitting bongs, and (in Ilana's case) doing sex stuff.
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But while Mr. Rioult uses the tools of Graham — we see it in the contractions, in the scantily clad men and in the misunderstood heroines — his exploration of psychological states, in both "Iphigenia" and "On Distant Shores … a redemption fantasy," about Helen of Troy, has little depth.
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Set in an unspecified European country near the turn of the 20th century, it draws as much from fairy tales as history, obviously inspired by the Brothers Grimm and perhaps Hans Christian Andersen, whose "Thumbelina" and "The Little Mermaid" likewise feature the dramatic transformations of their heroines.
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The most memorable heroines in Roth's novels—Mary Jane Reed (referred to throughout as the Monkey) of Portnoy's Complaint, Drenka in Sabbath's Theater, Consuela Castillo ("superclassically the fertile female of our mammalian species") in The Dying Animal among them—are celebrated foremost for their enthusiasm for sex.
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This premise serves as the central plot conceit, ostensibly for the purpose of allowing Carmilla to make peace with her past but really so that The Carmilla Movie can put its heroines in corsets and stage elaborate Victorian set pieces — think less Dracula, more DeviantArt photo shoot.
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But in the land of holiday romance, the biggest problems our heroines face are whether the gingerbread recipe is going to turn out right (it will) or if she'll ever find the antique tree topper her grandfather gave her grandmother when they got married (she will).
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They can also learn about his widow, an activist herself, in "Historic Heroines: Coretta Scott King," a workshop in which they'll create a book in honor of the couple and find out more about the Coretta Scott King Book Award, which recognizes children's literature by black writers and illustrators.
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From Sofia Coppola's brooding tour-de-force, The Beguiled, to Patty Jenkins's box office-smashing Wonder Woman, films created and headlined by female visionaries have climbed to increasing prominence recently, thanks in no small part to a new abundance of roles written for complex, and often kickass, heroines.
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Swalwell's story is that the NRA is the villain and the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who carry on a crusade to honor the memories of the students killed there are the heroes and heroines Swalwell has a long and winding road to get the Democratic nomination.
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They imagined a certain parity of the sexes; their radical scheme, for the 21876s, was to balance the story between a man and a woman by making the woman formidable and remarkable and alive, in exactly the ways romantic-comedy heroines would later be criticized for not being.
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The opening of "Soonest Mended" strikes many of the familiar Ashberian notes: Barely tolerated, living on the margin In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued On the brink of destruction, like heroines in "Orlando Furioso" Before it was time to start all over again.
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The diverse casting in "A Wrinkle in Time" also takes an important step in normalizing girls and women of color as heroines of our own stories, interested in math and science, and struggling to define ourselves in a world that doesn't always accept us for who we are.
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Unlike her leading competitors' heroines, for whom the ultimate goal remained scoring the ideal mate, a Nora Roberts heroine was encouraged not only to score him but also to find a satisfying career path in life: It wasn't either/or, it was both — and he'd better adjust to it!
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