Noun
The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
Women, collectively; womankind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood. Camille Paglia
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. Honoré de Balzac
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer. Lucille Ball
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence. Swami Vivekananda