Little woman taking time, the woman to tremble (6)
I believe the answer is:
dither
'tremble' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'little woman taking time the woman' is the wordplay.
'little woman' becomes 'di' (short for Diane, Diana etc).
'taking' says to put letters next to each other.
'time' becomes 't'.
'the woman' becomes 'her' (**).
'di'+'t'+'her'='DITHER'
'to' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for dither that I've seen before include "Faff about" , "Vacillate, be undecided" , "Tremble - be undecided" , "Hit red in order to vacillate" , "Keep hesitating" .)