Résultats pour "Me" dans Femmes

Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording! Audie Award Winner for Audiobook of the Year! Narrated by Viola Davis In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever...

"Je m'appelle Nina, j'ai 16 ans, et je reviens de l'enfer. Pendant plus d'un an, je me suis vendue à des inconnus. Mon corps, mon sexe, mon sourire, j'ai tout offert... Pour de l'argent, oui. Mais moi, je me racontais que c'était pour conquérir ce dont je rêvais depuis mes 13 ans : la liberté. Au moment où j'entreprends ce récit, je ne suis rentrée de fugue que depuis six semaines. Je ne partirai plus."

La première femme noire africaine à devenir proviseure dans un lycée parisien raconte le racisme au quotidien. "Je suis suédoise." Tout sourire, je laisse fuser cette réponse ironique chaque fois que l'on me questionne sur mes origines. C'est-à-dire constamment ! Aujourd'hui proviseure d'un lycée parisien, première femme noire africaine à un tel poste dans la capitale, j'échappe rarement à cet interrogatoire absurde. D'où viens-je ? Suis-je française, et si oui depuis quand ?

Sa vie exemplaire, son amour des siens, sa fidélité sans faille aux valeurs de la République, son attachement à la cause des femmes ont fait de Simone Veil un modèle de ce que doit être une personnalité politique de premier rang. A mesurer l’immensité des épreuves qu’elle a connues et surmontées, on comprend pourquoi tant de respect, d’admiration et d’affection entourent Simone Veil, la “mère courage” de notre génération. Robert Badinter....

"An inspiring roadmap to navigating life's challenges with grace, grit, and a refusal to settle for anything less than your worth." –Chelsea Handler, comedian and #1 bestselling author Beloved actress, designer, and entrepreneur Jennie Garth opens up in this fiercely honest book about pursuing...

Di shares her journey of seeking validation and self-worth while balancing the demands of nursing, a turbulent marriage, and motherhood. Her world shifts dramatically when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. With honesty and vulnerability, she recounts the physical and emotional toll of the disease, her decision to undergo a bilateral mastectomy, and the solitary path to recovery.

At the turn of the millennium, American-born Paige Parker and investment guru Jim Rogers spend three years—1,101 days to be exact—driving over six continents in their 'sunburst yellow' coupe and trailer, ultimately setting a Guinness World Record. During the epic journey, Paige's world view...

Destrozada por la muerte de su madre y, al mismo tiempo, desconcertada y "más que un poco avergonzada" por la intensidad de su reacción, Arundhati Roy comenzó a escribir estas memorias en un intento de comprender sus sentimientos hacia la madre de la que huyó a los dieciocho años, "no porque no la amara, sino para poder seguir amándola". Así empieza esta historia asombrosa, que Roy lleva "escribiendo toda la vida", un texto radicalmente honesto, divertido y profundamente conmovedor. .

Sophie Passmann hat mit "Pick me Girls" nicht nur ihr persönlichstes Buch geschrieben, sondern auch eine kluge Auseinandersetzung mit dem männlichen Blick. Ihr Memoir zeichnet ein stellvertretendes Frauenleben nach und wirft die Frage auf: Welche Version von ihr selbst hätte Sophie Passmann sein können, wenn das Patriarchat nicht existieren würde? Warum wir alle "pick me girls" sind und welche Unmöglichkeiten Sophie Passmann und höchstwahrscheinlich auch jede andere Frau im Laufe ihres Lebens ertragen muss, das seziert Sophie Passmann so scharf und klug wie keine andere.

“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordinary childhood as she travels the world with her mother Viva. Wit and wisdom wrapped and bound with love.” --Debbie Harry “Alexandra Auder’s Don’t Call Me Home is thrumming with...

In Watch Me, Huston tells the story of falling in love with Jack Nicholson and her adventurous, turbulent, high-profile, spirited 17-year relationship with him and his intoxicating circle of friends. She writes about learning the art and craft of acting, about her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi’s Honor.

More than seven years after his death, Michael Jackson continues to fascinate the world. Shana Mangatal was one of Jackson's only constant and true rocks of stability for nearly two decades. Their relationship was quiet and sweet and real - a closely guarded secret, known only to a few trusted employees and friends. Shana is now coming forward to tell their love story. Her story is rich with every little detail.

In searing dispatches, Love, Me is a timely affirmation for Black women in a world that has undervalued them for centuries. "Thee Black woman’s story for this era. It is both political and personal. It is both timely and, quite frankly, overdue." —Sunny Hostin, Emmy Award-winning journalist...

'Jenny Tough writes with the same talent, imagination, and sheer courage that she displays in her athletic endeavours. This book will broaden the horizons of all who venture between its covers.' - Emily Chappell, author of Where There's a Will 'I love that SOLO is part-self help and part...

The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance her life as a wife and mother. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military...

In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection - with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery.

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock...

Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What Melania wants, Melania gets. The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump’s then girlfriend from a...

Born in 1962, Alexandra Billings grew up in a decade in which being herself was illegal. When she started transitioning in 1980, the word “Transgender” didn’t exist. With no Trans role models and no path to follow, Alexandra did what her family, teachers, and even friends said was impossible: Alexandra forged ahead. Spanning five decades, from profound lows to exhilarating highs, This Time for Me captures the events of a pioneering life.