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#1

“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

tags: female-empowerment, motherhood-taught-love-best-gift

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#2

“We have made cities out of our suburbs, and now, with the corporate drift form urban centers, are beginning to make suburbs out of our cities.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: corporate-flight-from-cities, exodus-from-cities, rise-of-suburbs, suburbs, urban-drift

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#3

“The suburban dream began innocently enough one and a half centuries ago, with a weariness of city life and a craving for all things green bright and pure.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: american-dream, flight-from-the-city, healthy-living-quotes, suburbs, the-good-life, urban-flight

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#4

“Hysterical. That word had unfortunate ramifications.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart , American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

tags: misogyny, women

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#5

“Those who abuse political power create a debt of hatred that almost certainly brings them to a bad end.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen

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#6

“Unless a suburban woman is in the relatively rare position of commanding a high salary, and is able to find and afford top-quality child care, she may find herself in a no-win situation”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: career-choices, child-care, suburban-women, working-moms, working-women

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#7

“Nor was the monster public the only one deceived.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

tags: deception, public-opinion

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#8

“To some "housewife" has become a dirty word.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: housewife, housework, women, women-empowerment, women-quotes

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#9

“Rhythms. You can almost feel them on suburban streets, divine the hour of the day without consulting a clock from the sounds heard in the cool, leafy neighborhoods.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: commuters, suburban-life, suburbs, women

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#10

“The great suburban mansions and modest tract homes are often silent all day, mausoleums to a dream, the streets hushed until the schoolchildren return home.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: mansions, suburban-life, the-american-dream, tract-homes, women

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#11

“The aborigines were a source of wonder and amusement to be alternately fed, clothed, teased, educated, and petted.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen

tags: aborigines, american-indians

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#12

“Women did not yet have the vote, but suffrage was clearly in the wind”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

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#13

“Strange surroundings make youngsters cling to habits that represent earlier securities.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen

tags: childhood-traumas, children, habits-become-rituals, insecurities

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#14

“Yet the tranquil image of suburbias of the past remains, and continues to influence us, as do traditional concepts of femininity....”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: american-dream, suburban-life, suburban-women, suburbia, traditional-femininity, tranquil-suburbia

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#15

“The Moslem people had brought an extraordinarily rich mixture of knowledge, beauty, and bloodshed to the Iberian peninsula; in the process Spain had been permanently transformed.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart

tags: ancient-knowledge, bias, ethnic-cleansing, moslem, muslim, spain, spanish-culture

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#16

“... Women's impulse to change her own rhythms in the face of an environment constructed to retain her as guardian of the suburban hearth.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: career-women, housewives, mothers, suburban-women, suburbia, traditional-wives-es, women-empowerment, women-s-rights, women-s-traditional-roles

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#17

“As cities were melting pots in the nineteenth century, suburbs have become the twentieth-century equivalent...minorities, refugees and other population subgroups have ...entered the suburbs.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: melting-pots, minorities, population-subgroups, suburban-life

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#18

“Illness was thus considered not so much a condition of the human body as a reflection of a doubting or ailing spirit.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

tags: health, spiritual-development, wellness, wellness-quotes

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#19

“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

tags: motherhood, mothers-love, working-moms

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#20

“She had difficulty accepting adultery despite its prevalence among high-born men of the era.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen

tags: adultery, male-privilege, married-life, unfaithfulness

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#21

“The accused were considered guilty unless proven innocent.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen

tags: accusations, inquisition, trials, victims

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#22

“Yet our old expectation that the suburbs are homey, tranquil and predictable places continues to gnaw at the feminine collective subconscious. The suburban home still begs for a presiding divinity -- a keeper of the keys and human cares, the archetypal mother of earlier ages.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: dutiful-mother, feminine-power, good-women, mothers, suburban-life, traditional-women, wives

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#23

“Her life was expected to be as anonymous as the era's needlework.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

tags: needlework, women, women-s-history

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#24

“Her conclusions were not always favorable, but she rarely aired her negative opinions about others even to her closest friends.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

tags: friendship-tolerance

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#25

“A young woman's ability to read beyond the bible had little practical value.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

tags: women-education, women-empowerment, women-s-issues

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#26

“Punishments were severe, their harshness underscored by the fact that they were written in blood. At the very least, petty thieves were beaten with whips. Those convicted of stealing property...routinely lost an army or a leg. the most serious offenders were tied to a post, where, as it was stipulated, 'his body shall be taken as a target,' with arrows.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen

tags: medieval-life, murderers, punishment-quotes, whips

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#27

“In late summer, when sprays of purple loosestrife, goldenrod, and ripening cranberries burst into color along the old road cutting through the Great Marsh of West Barnstable on Cape Cod, the air vibrated with the drumbeat of cicadas, the caws of seagulls and geese.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

tags: cape-cod, cicadas, cranberries, geese, golden-rod, late-summer, loose, loosestrife, marshes, sea-gulls

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#28

“By then Mercy, too, had evolved from the decorous wife of an affluent patriot into a reporter for those removed from the theater of war.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

tags: american-revolution, colonial-history, women-rebel

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#29

“...a later scene...was perhaps Mercy's strongest indictment of the colonial disregard for women and families.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

tags: colonial-america, mothers-love, womens-rights

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#30

“Penwoman to Posterity.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

tags: female-authors, female-historians, penwoman

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