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33 examples of Womanhood in a sentence

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.
I was afraid of womanhood.
At Camp Diva, my non-profit organization, we have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood.
In our tradition, there is a ceremony that girls have to undergo to become women, and it's a rite of passage to womanhood.
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.
And I've always believed that having children was an extension of womanhood, not the definition.
And as de Beauvoir sought to find her own purpose, she began to question: if everyone deserves to freely pursue meaning, why was she restricted by society’s ideals of womanhood?
In fact, I grew up observing two different kinds of womanhood.
Jennifer Jones, in particular, is SO SEXUALLY HOT in this film (much more than a caricature like Monroe EVER was) because she creates a real woman -- with ALL facets of womanhood: She's intelligent, intuitive, graceful.
She symbolizes an undeveloped ideal of womanhood perfected for the boys and a source of strength for the girls of the town.
I like David Hamilton's artistic photographs of nude women at the border of womanhood, sometimes erotic, though never pornographic.
Anthony LaPaglia stars as Leo Waters, a Chicago-based architect whose domestic life is not as stable as his professional; to wit: his eldest child, Martin (Sebastian Stan), has just dropped out of college and his aimlessness leads to an unlikely assignation; his youngest, daughter Christina (Hayden Panettiere, currently on NBC's hit series "Heroes" as the cheerleader impervious to pain), whose blossoming into young womanhood is proving to be a painful event; and his wife Julia (Isabella Rossellini), a homemaker whose anal retentive disposition is masquerading some still waters running deep.
No secret is made of his affections for her, but he tries to mold Nikita into a valuable person, and he's able to do it with the help of another agent, played by actress Jeanne Moreau, who teaches her the finer ways of womanhood.
Figuratively speaking, "Friend" seems to be a representation of Dern's transition from childhood to womanhood, not a real person.
The scene where the New Orleans ladies take Marlene aside to give her a little lecture on the "burden of womanhood she'll have to endure" after her marriage is priceless, with the tiny smirk that plays across Marlene's face (given her well-known history, it makes it doubly funny).
A young girls turning 18 and discovering her womanhood.
Instead of portraying strong womanhood, she is one of the worst examples of a female's obsession to be loved and accepted by men.
Likewise, they won over newly enfranchised women voters by portraying themselves as the defender of traditional German womanhood and the family.
In cultures where girls and women are married off and chastity is central to womanhood, all is lost for a woman who loses her honor.
Virginia Woolf called the ideal of womanhood in this period “The Angel in the House”: a retiring, fragile creature who could not withstand the rigors of the public arena.
Memory’s sister became pregnant during a traditional sexual “cleansing ceremony,” a rite of passage in some parts of Malawi that is supposed to prepare pubescent girls for womanhood and marriage.
The transition from primary school to secondary school is particularly important, as it usually coincides with adolescence, a period in a girl’s life that lays the foundation for success and wellbeing in womanhood.
Through those retellings, her self-immolation (jauhar) became a noble act of resistance against the lustful Muslim, making her an exemplar of unsullied Hindu womanhood.
It is a painful procedure carried out in unsafe ways by old women who are seeking to initiate girls into womanhood, and, more concretely, into a life that will be an unending chain of physical pain and social marginalization.
Seeking to advance other women can highlight her own womanhood and thereby weaken her.
Tereshkova’s generation, though it encompassed almost the entire era of Soviet rule, had been raised in the tradition of Russian womanhood.
Indeed, probably more horrifying to them than the collapse of the Soviet regime was the rampant prostitution of daily life, for it negated the meaning of Russia and of Russian womanhood.
IT was a glorious morning, late spring or early summer, as you care to take it, when the dainty sheen of grass and leaf is blushing to a deeper green; and the year seems like a fair young maid, trembling with strange, wakening pulses on the brink of womanhood.
Frances, we have already mentioned, left the city before she had attained to the age of fashionable womanhood.
"From early womanhood to the present hour have I been an inmate of camps and garrisons.