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[–]levoyageur718293 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A "mother" is someone who mothers, or who has mothered and wants to still be identified by it. If you've never been responsible for a child (be that through the performance of care or through nurturing it with your body), then you have quite simply never mothered and thus are not a mother.

To translate it to "woman" suggests that a woman is someone who womans or who performs the act of woman-ing, which can only mean stereotypes.