There is a mother element in the heart of every girl.
Daddy used to say that half the women in the world married the men they did because they wanted to mother them.

You can't tell what is in a woman's heart by looking at her.

You must bring her face to face with an emergency before you can say what she'll do, but I would be perfectly willing to stake my life on this: There is scarcely a girl you know who would see you getting the worst of a fight, say with Oka Sayye, or someone who meant to kill you or injure you, who would not pick up the first weapon she could lay her hands on, whether it was an axe or a stick or a stone, and go to your defense, and if she had nothing else to fight with, I have heard of women who put up rather a tidy battle with their claws.

Sounds primitive, doesn't it ?" "It sounds true," said Donald reflectively.

"I see, young lady, where one is going to have to measure his words and think before he talks to you." "Pretty thought!" said Linda lightly.