Word: motherhood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paintings was refused. Degas invited her to join the exhibitions of the Impressionists and she accepted with enthusiasm. Her style sustained an immediate and vast improvement; she lost the literary quality that had impaired her early efforts and began to work more blandly. She still dreamt sentimentally of motherhood, but she painted her concept like a realist; her children's eyes were the holy, sightless eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs a week in a Paris atelier, and drawn with surpassing skill. The great museums began...
...Story.* A country carpenter?tall, inarticulate, muscled like a bison ?marries a horse-breeder's daughter and moves in from Huntington, L. I., to hammer up frame houses in Brooklyn, the lustily sprawling community of 1823. His wife, Louisa, bears nine children in quiet, capable fecundity, expressing through motherhood and housewifery certain deep stirrings that are incommunicable to her husband...
...much mother wit among the refuse, a native tang in the bawdy breeze. The story: the leggy daughter of a long line of muddling-through country gentlemen embraces higher education, marries an elfish gentleman of traditions and talents, sees him off to the wars, straddles those jealous nags wifehood, motherhood and career, and comes a cropper...
...Whenever we see women at work we must think of them in terms of motherhood...
...forever and unalterably opposed to the employment of women in any such manner as will destroy or even endanger their future motherhood." The chief excitement during the sessions was caused by the supporters of the National Woman's Party. This group advocates an amendment to the Constitution to the effect that "men and women shall have equal rights throughout the U. S. and every place subject to its jurisdiction"-which among other things would invalidate the legal restrictions on hours of work, the minimum wage, etc., for women unless the restrictions were made to apply to both...