womanhood
Noun
Meaning
The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
Women, collectively; womankind.
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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet.
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.
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
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.
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.