This business of womanhood is a heavy burden† And these days it is worse, with the poverty of blackness on one side and the weight of womanhood on the other.

-Dangarembga,Tsitsi
  Nervous Conditions, ch.1.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Of Florence Nightingale.'Santa Filomena'.

With each generation the entire race passes through the body of its womanhood as through a mould, reappearing withtheindeliblemarks ofthat mould upon it, that as the os cervix of woman, through which the head of the human infant passes at birth, forms a ring, determining for ever the size at birth of the human head†so exactly the intellectual capacity, the physical vigour, the emotional depth of woman, forms also an untranscendable circle, circumscribing with each successive generation the limits of expansion of the human race. 720

-Iron
Women and Labour, ch.3.

Quite as many false ideas prevail as to woman's true position in the home as to her status elsewhere. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

-Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady
The History ofWoman Suffrage1848^61, vol.1, introduction.