Mother Mirror Quotes

“Modern woman have discovered that living through another's reflection is simply not human enough.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America

“Motherhood, as our nation, has always know it, was being practiced in a bold new way, preempted by the priority of the regular paycheck.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America

“Something untoward was happening to middle-class American women, an undercurrent of i change was seeping through heir ideas about duties and obligations as mothers, eroding their desire to conform to madonna-like models of unconditional devotion to the young child to adapt a more managerial concept of mother as coordinator and motivator of her child's activities and interests.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America

“Even late marriage and childbirth didn't seem to deter this new young population of women from continuing to hold down paid jobs.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart , Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America