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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue VII, 17 February 1900, Page 310

“Yes,” said a lady, who has devoted her life to making her sisters happy, “we women are altogether miserable creatures. It is being more and more impressed upon me. A man's body and mind seem to have been made independently; but there is such a union between the body and mind of a woman that anything that affects the one is sure to affect the other. A woman enjoys better health if she devotes herself to sweeping and dusting, and does not take into her life any of those things that will cause her mental worry. Women not only are made ill by their own troubles, but by the troubles of other people. Take a man who asks a woman to marry him and she refuses. He may feel a little blue for a time if he has gone so far as to consider that there was only one woman in the world for him, but he goes on with his business and does not lose a wink of sleep or his appetite. It is quite a different matter with the girl. A man has asked her to marry him, and she has refused because she doesn’t care for him. But, notwithstanding all this, she will probably lie awake all the night after she has refused him; lose her appetite, perhaps, and be thoroughly miserable for several days. I know of one case where a girl refused to marry someone of whom she had been very fond, though only as a friend. He felt it badly enough, but she was so entirely broken up over the affair that she fell into a nervous condition, and was ill and miserable for over a year. She hardly recovered in time to accept an invitation to the man’s wedding.”