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Big Books of 2026

Downshifting Quotes

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Emily Matchar
“[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.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
tags: downshifting, homemakers, hyperindividualism, libertarianism, mothers, neurosis, perfectionism, social-withdrawal
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Emily Matchar
“Many men no longer want to be identified just by their jobs," said Bengt Westerberg, the country's former deputy prime minister.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
tags: downshifting, masculinity, paternity-leave, sweden, workplace-attitudes
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