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...What do you hope other women will gain from this book? Women have come so far in the past 100 years. But what holds them back is lack of confidence and self-hatred. Those two things can affect every part of your life. I was at the lowest level you can be. It was only when I accepted myself that I managed to achieve [my goals] in life and work. Through this book, I want women to know that people in the [fashion] industry can relate to them too. Women struggle everywhere with their weight and their bodies...
...Faulkner and Steinbeck, because what she wrote about so well and so convincingly was the back-broken underclass in Maine, the people who work, like Carolyn once did, in shoe factories or scrubbing hospital floors or picking potatoes. Her characters watch helplessly, like Carolyn did, as children die from lack of healthcare. Indeed, Carolyn and Michael Chute lost a baby in 1982 after the local hospital refused to treat the complications from her pregnancy. (See the All-TIME 100 Novels...
...part of the government that is admirable. Uruguay, of course, has other serious problems that will need to be addressed in order to maintain the welfare of its citizens. However, concern for other, perhaps more pressing, issues should not paralyze progress or prevent the country from tackling the clear lack of access to technology or high-quality education. Moreover, the Uruguayan solution should be emulated by similarly capable and equipped nations for the benefit of future generations. This is insurance for posterity and a victory for progress...
Given the vast array of previous family-focused films, Dieckmann strove to create a realistic yet complex portrait of motherhood. “I felt, as a filmmaker, very frustrated with the lack of multidimensional mothers on film,” Dieckmann says. She didn’t want to create a suburban family comedy (“We’ve seen that movie,” she explains), nor did she aim to produce yet another film about a mother’s psychological crisis. “I didn’t want [to portray] the mother...
...while sales have climbed, economists say the government has yet to push through the sort of reforms that would make consumer spending a solid economic pillar. Chinese are still among the world's biggest savers, in part because of the lack of good public systems for retirement pensions and health insurance. "Most economists think they've overdone investment and underdone consumption and spending for social welfare," says Stephen Green, the Shanghai-based head of research for Standard Chartered Bank. "There will be a price to pay. No one knows how big that will be. The bet is they'll grow...