Brewer's: Mother of the Gracchi

A hard, strong-minded, rigid woman, without one soft point or effeminate weakness. Always in the right, and maintaining her right with the fortitude of a martyr.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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