LEAR: Now all the plagues that in the pendulous air
Hang fated o’er men’s faults light on thy daughters!
KENT: He hath no daughters, sir.
LEAR: Death, traitor! Nothing could have subdued nature
To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.

– William Shakespeare

King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4. When Lear meets Edgar disguised as the near-naked and mad beggar Poor Tom, he believes that his dreadful state must have been caused by his daughters. When Kent points out that Poor Tom has no daughters, Lear is still convinced that nothing in the world could have reduced a man’s nature to such a low state except unkind daughters! All the problems of the world are caused by daughters, it appears to Lear – especially madness and poverty!