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Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity Quotes: [Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.
         

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.


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[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.
         



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This page presents the quote "[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.". Author of this quote is Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity. This quote is about mothers, homemakers, libertarianism, perfectionism, social-withdrawal, neurosis, hyperindividualism, downshifting,.