My childhood was not ideal
Photographer Anne Geddes writes in her new book, Labor of Love: An Autobiography, about her childhood on a cattle farm in Australia, with an “emotionally remote mother and a father who regularly demeaned his children.”
She “grew up with no sense of self-worth,” according to the interview article Anne Geddes’ newest baby [...]

“I always feel like something of an impostor. I don’t know what I’m doing.”

Admired and insecure
Jodie Foster made that comment recently when she was guest of honor at the Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast. She is a recipient of the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award.
A highly accomplished actor-director-producer, Foster said, “I don’t feel [...]

Mixed messages
One of the pleasures of many films of the 30s, 40s, and 50s was the dynamic presence and performance of women such as Myrna Loy (Nora Charles in The Thin Man series, etc).
Jeanine Basinger, a professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University, describes the impacts of these films in her book How Hollywood Spoke [...]