
Original: «An ill husband may deprive a wife of the comfort and quiet of her life, give occasion of exercising her virtue, try her patience and fortitude to the utmost, which is all he can do; it is herself only that can accomplish her ruin».
Fuente: Citado en The Whole duty of a woman: female writers in seventeenth century England Autor, editor y colaboradora Angeline Goreau. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Dial Press, 1985. ISBN 9780385278782. p. 157.