womanhood

The novel is a near perfect portrayal of the emotions of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.

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Louisa Treger

November 20, 2014

Those were the valuable aspects of womanhood at the time: being pretty and even-tempered and sweet.

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Kevin Fallon

June 1, 2014

Many of the poems are diagrams and puzzles that seek to look at love, womanhood, motherhood, and the longing for God in new ways.

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The Daily Beast

September 17, 2013

Ten dollars, and her little girl, Soheir, would be ready to take her first step on the road to womanhood.

Egypt’s Terrible FGM Death

Alastair Beach

June 13, 2013

Together, they hover on the edge of reality, dangerously poised somewhere between girlhood and womanhood.

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Mythili Rao

September 3, 2012

It may be only a further development of the sin of woman, the wastage of her womanhood.

It also has direct and urgent bearing on many of the problems of womanhood.

She was still a child, no doubt, but a child ripening into womanhood.

Yes, ever since she had grown into womanhood he had adored her.

He should reverence his manhood, even as he expected her to 28 reverence her womanhood.