With two strong sisters at the centre of the story, Disney's new animation Frozen seems like a winner for women.
(DreamWorks, Blu-ray, $39.99; standard definition, $29.98; PG) THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES Fleeing from her abusive father, a 14-year-old girl (Dakota Fanning) finds refuge with three strong sisters (Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo) in Gina Prince-Bythewood's film, "a familiar and tired fable of black selflessness," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in October.
The flawed but charming Georgette has a strong sister in Lonnie D, the lone character of Gary Garrison's "Cherry Reds".
But what I'm left with is the knowledge that in her 50 years my brave, clever, funny and strong, strong sister did not only teach me about life.
Wollstonecraft was successively a resentful daughter, a strong sister, a teaching drudge, a menial governess, a literary hack, a lovelorn nuisance, a doleful political radical, a rapturous sexual liberationist, a literary star, an enterprising businesswoman, a protective and frustrated mother.
If Mr. Obama's campaign has fashioned any master narrative, it's that of the young man in the bower of a matriarchy — raised by a "strong" mother, bolstered by a "strong" sister, married to a "strong" wife and proud of his "strong" daughters.
Pulling up to her palatial tile-roofed bungalow in her smart red BMW convertible, Shanté Smith Vivica A. Foxx), the spirited advertising executive who is the heroine of "Two Can Play," describes herself as "an educated, strong sister who remembers where she came from and knows where she's going".
3 Hearts features strong sister ties between Sylvie and Sophie.
In Bulgarian and Macedonian stories, Marko had an equally strong sister who competed with him in throwing boulders.
An additional interesting pattern recovered from the partitioned phylogenetic analyses is that the strong sister taxon relationship between loons and grebes is supported primarily by characters of the pelvic girdle (Figures 4 6).
With two very different, but very strong older sisters, our youngest is no different.
