Word: motherism
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...cards." A billion cards are sent every year, second only to Christmastime, and 85% of them by women. For this we can thank Esther Howland, an entrepreneurial 1847 Mount Holyoke grad, whose father owned a stationery store and who came up with the idea of mass-producing valentines. The Mother of the Valentine never married but did get very rich, racking up annual sales equivalent to more than $2 million today...
BETH TWITTY, mother of Natalee Holloway, on new video footage, taped shortly after Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, showing a Dutch student admitting he was with Holloway when she died. The student later said he was lying...
MICHELLE WILLIAMS, former companion of Heath Ledger and mother of their 2-year-old daughter, in her first public statement since Ledger's death...
...Such broadly philosophical questions permeate the novel—at times to the point of oversaturation—but Schlink’s narrative is also touchingly sympathetic to the characters of this post-World War II odyssey.The novel’s protagonist, Peter Debauer, grew up with his mother in Germany, spending summers at his paternal grandparents’ home in Switzerland. He knew his father through photographs and stories that his grandparents told him; his mother informed him only that his father had been shot during the War. As a child, he kept his grandparents company while they...
...will say this for her: I have no idea where she gets those pants suits. I have never ever seen them in any store. Horrific hip-length jacket with ankle-skimming capri pants in matching puke brown is a combination I literally thought was impossible to buy. My mother helpfully suggested that Hillary is in the shape of a perfect pear, and thus, it is impossible to buy anything except a hip length jacket. This may be true. I also realize that she is trying to be taken seriously by an all-male establishment that only likes her when...