Word: everywoman
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Tell me about her. Ellen Gleeson is like a lot of my heroines. She is very ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. I picture her as everywoman and a lot like me. If anyone were to ask me, "What is your defining characteristic?" it's that I'm a mom. And in my case, and her case too, [it's that we're] single moms. So even though she works outside the home, her child is the most important thing in her life and the day she adopts him she feels that her life has become complete...
...live as their true selves, unconstrained by inequitable societal demands. As First Lady, it appears as though Mrs. Obama will exhibit all of the aforementioned dualities, at once. She need not seesaw between being a stateswoman and a mother, habitué of the haute monde and a J. Crewian everywoman. She is not all of those women, she is simply one woman, with many facets.In a 2004 speech, then-Senator Obama declared that we must, “eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.” Similarly, we must stamp...
...Oblivious to her $16K in debt, he hires her to write for Successful Savings magazine right after she's been laid off from a gardening magazine that's being shuttered (the movie's first and only nod to reality in the world of media). He likes her sort of Everywoman approach to consumerism and forgives her complete ignorance of actual finances...
...lost both houses of Congress. And as much as Palin pleases the conservative base of the party, white women were the real target audience McCain was aiming at with his surprise pick of the Alaska governor. The campaign hopes female voters will relate to her thoroughly modern and complicated everywoman story, even if they don't agree with her on the issues. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...
...fact schizophrenic economist John Nash? Is that played out?Meanwhile, ABC News has been vehemently derided for its recent debate, which was labeled ‘irrelevant’ by many and whose host, Charlie Gibson, was pilloried as a gossipmonger. One exemplary moment featured Nash McCabe, a Pennsylvania everywoman in a bizarre tunic who asked Sen. Obama if he “believes in the American flag.” If so, why won’t he wear a tiny tin replica of it on his lapel? But the attention this debate received should point the way going...