Roxane Gay

I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.

American Writer

Michaela Coel

Men are trained to like this version of womanhood, and when someone comes along smashing the table and messing up the party, it's a bit like, 'Get out; why are you disturbing the peace?

KRS-One

High respect goes out to our mothers, our single mothers. This is why today the real community uplifts femininity and holds womanhood above, not equal to, masculinity.

American Musician

I was very protected by my family. But at the same time, I was free to explore womanhood. I was taught that it's okay to be sexy and smart and beautiful.

Frank Crane

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

American Clergyman

Coretta Scott King

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

American Activist

Jessica Williams

I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife.

American Comedian

Alicia Keys

I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.

Madam C. J. Walker

I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.

Mary McLeod Bethune

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

American Educator

Used when discussing a woman's own perception of herself as an individual.

Self-Identity

Often used when talking about women's empowerment and rights.

Empowerment

Relates to traditional gender roles or stereotypes for behavior.

Gender Roles

Attributes of womanhood can vary widely across different cultures.

Culturally Sensitive

Used specifically to mark the transition into being perceived as an adult woman.

Age Specific

Indicates personal growth and the beginning of a new life phase.

Personal Growth

Refers to the collective existence or experience of all women.

Collectivity

About universal respect and equality for the female gender.

Universal Respect

 As women around the world struggle to achieve political, social and economic equality, we must reimagine motherhood as not the central, core aspect of womanhood, but one of the many potential facets of what makes women awesome. It's time.

What we don't know about...

 actually telling the community that they're no longer a child but they're not yet a woman when a girl is ready to enter womanhood her mother parts the veil to show that she's ready for her new stage in life and an interesting

Carol Beckwith & Angela...

 our desires produce, both internally and externally. And as de Beauvoir sought to find her own purpose, she began to if everyone deserves to freely pursue meaning, why was she restricted by society’s ideals of womanhood?

The meaning of life...

 because she was also an emerging mother. She had this maternal instinct, much like a young girl on her way to womanhood, and so this really took us to this new level of understanding that personality.

Beverly + Dereck...

 we need to heal fear grow tolerance not give women simply another veil to mask their shame another excuse not to talk about this new stage of womanhood and as we were thinking about this we

Girls helping girls PIPE...

 have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood these girls just need it a way to invite their fathers

A father-daughter dance...

 we have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood. These girls just needed

Angela Patton: A...

 from me being a mother. And I've always believed that having children was an extension of womanhood, not the definition. I believe that a woman's value

I don't want children --...

 times to mark the four stages of life the fourth and final day brings - inna to the cusp of womanhood she ascends the

Girl's Rite of Passage PIPE...

 I was afraid of womanhood. Not that I'm not afraid now, but I've learned to pretend. I've learned to be flexible.

Womanhood