Sentence examples for female vocation from inspiring English sources

I didn't like the March household at seven, when they were pressed on me as a warm refuge from my own family's ungenteel poverty – I had a bad reaction to Marmee's sentimentalised religion, and her belief that the only female vocation is marriage before devoted service to husband and children.

She is wearing the gloves and a uniform of a female vocation and profession that is under negotiation and transformation.

But the plummet in female religious vocations was too steep for developing countries to offset.The limited role the church grants women is a big reason fewer now hear the call, says Sister Gemma Simmonds of Heythrop College in London.

She had invented a new vocation: the female public intellectual.

In the space of a decade, she had invented a new vocation: the female public intellectual.

People love to ask Bloomfield what it feels like to be one of the few famous female chefs, but her choice of vocation was more a practicality than a political statement.

For instance, if you say you're a female and try to select "priest" as your vocation, a dialogue box appears that says "sex and vocation are incompatible".

" Good salary" and " Prestigious profession" were more important motives for males and " Vocation" and " Interest in people" for females.

Most are in favour, for example, of female priests – although none appears to feel that particular vocation themselves.

It concerned a priest struggling to choose between his vocation and the saving of a troubled female poet.

But the dispute between Fanny and Mr Brown isn't simply between female and male love, it is between matrimony and vocation, between mere life and high art.