Quote by Joss Stirling

“I will care for you, baby girl. I will protect you, baby girl. I will defend you, my baby girl. Because you are my…

— J.W. Lynne

“little. What an odious thing it is to be a woman, to be always ready, when you would rather not, when you want to…

— Margaret Oliphant

“I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here…

— Louisa May Alcott

“I’ve made myself as vulnerable as a man can make himself to a woman. It’s the same as if I just handed you a…

— Maya Banks

“Do I seem one who will not defend myself? You are her father, so I will make myself clear. Any who seek her harm…

— Danielle Monsch

“Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.”

— Irène Némirovsky

“I'm not your enemy, baby," I whispered, kissing at the edge of her mouth. "I protect you. Adore you. I fucking love you.”

— Lucian Bane

“I saw you stand,” I said. “Saw your courage, back at Twelve. Saw the steel in your will, the power you command. You say…

— Ed McDonald

“Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.”

— Andreï Makine

“No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly.”

— Agatha Christie

“That was what men wanted, wasn’t it? Soft helpless women that they needed to protect?”

— George R.R. Martin

“Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.”

— Jamie Weise