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How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
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― The Book of the City of Ladies
― The Book of the City of Ladies
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Marriage can bore you but there is a fortitude that comes from it, too. When you need to lean on it, you are so thankful that you can.
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