Markandeyapurana 16.64

16.64

putra uvāca
tasyāstadvacanaṃ śrutvā pratipūjya tathādarāt /
pratyuvācātripatnīṃ tāmanasūyāmidaṃ vacaḥ //

The son spoke:
Having heard that her speech, the lady saluted Atri’s wife Anasūyā respectfully in return, and replied thus to her—“Happy am I, favoured am I, and regarded by the gods am I, since thou, O lady blessed by nature, again increasest my faith. I know this—none among women has a condition equal with her husband, and love for him tends to her benefit in this world and the next; through her husband’s favour both here and after death, O illustrious lady, a woman gains happiness; for a husband is a woman’s deity. Do thou, being such a woman, O exalted lady, tell me who have reached thy temple, what I, a noble[7] woman, must do, or what my noble husband must do, O beauteous one!”