“In the small room off the court where there was sun on fine days, her younger
sister, Morgause, thirteen years old and budding, wearing a loose house robe of undyed wool and her old frowzy cloak about her shoulder, was spinning listlessly with a drop spindle, taking up her uneven yarn on a wobbly reel.” (5)

 Morgause is something of a tomboy in her early years; she does not take well to
the “womanly” duties that are assigned to her.  As an adult she is very independent, both during her marriage and after her husbands death.  She runs her kingdom with a light hearted intellect, and takes whomever she pleases to her bed.
 
  Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Mists of Avalon.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.