I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.
I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.
Don't make a threat and then not do it.
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.