stubbornness

She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, and murmured a phrase or two vaguely of Gen.

Marilla saw something remarkably like unyielding stubbornness looking out of Anne’s small face.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

It is hard to imagine a better illustration of the quality that defined her career: a patience so deep that it could look, to outsiders, almost like stubbornness, and that was in fact a quiet form of confidence.