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She has been praised for changing the narrative around maternity style, with Vanessa Friedman writing in The New York Times that she "has a history of consciously using her own physicality and profile to force reconsideration of old prejudices and social conventions about female agency and beauty".

From BBC

She's got this brain that learns very quick and it's not conditioned by social conventions.

From Salon

As Zeke Faux details in “Number Go Up,” his engaging book about the rise and fall of cryptocurrency, Bankman-Fried, who was convicted last week on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy, presented himself as a boy-wonder business genius who had made billions of dollars without having to work for a boss, follow social conventions or even wear long pants.

The film is the latest in a naturally evolving project for Krieps of playing women throughout history who reject the social conventions of their times.

In terms of social conventions, it's so far in the past.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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