Definition of "motherhood" []

• The state of being a mother. (noun)
• The qualities of a mother. (noun)
• Mothers considered as a group. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "She is entirely specialized for motherhood; but the thinking, and the determination of the conditions of her motherhood, are in the hands of other females, also highly specialized, and certainly the least selfish of living things -- _yet themselves sterile, incapable of motherhood_."
• "And the true story of motherhood is that it is hard, very hard, sometimes almost too hard."
• "Luckily for me, so much of your writing about motherhood is simply writing about womanhood, personhood, through your experience of them as a mother."