Ms. Musfik died in the 1950s, impoverished, her portraits already fading from the art world's collective memory.
She had the self-confidence to exist and thrive in a male-dominated world, deriving inspiration from a childhood which, though materially impoverished, her obituarist has described as "of great spiritual and mental wealth".
This failure by society to ensure that a woman is not financially impoverished for her choice to care for her family is at the root of the disparity in income between men and women.
Verna, frustrated by her economic situation, is portrayed as equally impoverished by her cultural choices: she listens ceaselessly to mid-eighties pop music: Cyndi Lauper, Madonna.
The kokle?" Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood.
Though both men are dispatched in one paragraph, this addendum reveals that Catherine's lures were not as impoverished as her father believed.
"Betsy Andreu could be impoverished now, her husband could have committed suicide, David Walsh could have lost his job, I could have lost my job.
Even the formidable Marguerite ended her life impoverished and in exile, having lost her father, her husband, and her son — the three men without whom she was, in the eyes of those who mattered, worthless.
That's very much to Mr. Leigh's point since Vera wants nothing so much as to support the frightened, the dismayed and the impoverished who seek her help, who come to this tender dumpling of a woman because they believe they have no other choice.
She earned a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College, but her father, impoverished by the Depression, refused to send her, saying that even the ancillary costs of her education were too onerous.
But her biographies tell of some hard knocks in her often impoverished Brooklyn years: Ms. Streisand's father, a high school English teacher, died when she was a toddler, and her mother and stepfather could be neglectful or indifferent.
