motherliness

Fatherliness is more remarkable and rewarded than motherliness.

The show subverts the usual ideals of motherliness, not to create a black-comic monster but a new sort of heroine.

I feel comforted that her literal style and purposeful motherliness have not been crowdsourced into something more entertaining.

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

All the traditional female virtues—motherliness, sensuality, cooperativeness—can be made to look like vices—manipulation, seduction, collusion.