Towards the end of the film, Alice’s older daughter, Paulina “Lina” (Annalise Basso), points out something rather alarming: the answers the ghosts have been giving are the same answers that Alice used to give clients when she pretended to commune with the dead. The ghosts have been mani...
When her mother died after giving birth to twenty-one children, Maria took over the running of the household. At the age of twenty she started a ten-year project, a book bringing together the work on calculus (微积分学) of Leibnitz and Newton titled Analytic Institutions. Sometimes...
If we do not want to birth a baby, we should not have sex at all. Ever. Not ever. We should not be able to make the decision to have sex simply because we like it while simultaneously making the responsible decision to not become pregnant at all through the use of insurance-covered ...
In 1791, less than two weeks after giving birth to her second daughter — who became Mary Shelley, the legendary author of Frankenstein — Wollstonecraft died. She had developed puerperal, or "childbed," fever, a disease that, for centuries, killed thousands of women and children. In 1847, ...
In a marked departure from her prototype, Nimmi becomes a mother, at least fulfilling one set role of a woman, giving birth to a male child who ultimately becomes a trophy won by Guddu and Sameera, a final marker of the triumph of the mainstream. While the woman, during and after her...
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it’s hard to see the other side, but my mom’s voice keeps me anchored while the storm blows around me. That voice inside that tells me to keep going, keep loving, keep giving to the world, keep hoping. I’m still here, still learning, still growing, still changing. Maybe someday...
Being pregnant, giving birth and breastfeeding Pregnancy, giving birth and breastfeeding after can, understandably, have a huge physical and mental toll on a woman, especially when it comes to sex. This can be due to: Exhaustion Painful sex caused by cuts or tears in childbirth Changes to y...
Podarge, who was married to Zephyrus, and gave birth to the two horses of Achilles, Xanthus and Balius. (Il. xvi. 149, &c.) When a person suddenly disappeared from the earth, it was said that he had been carried off by the Harpies (Od. i. 241, xiv. 371); thus, they carried...
I urge you to reach out and share that memory. You could make someone’s day a whole lot better, and ease just a bit of their pain or even just give them a smile and laugh and a warm fuzzy. By looking back momentarily, you could be giving them a reason to look forward with hope...