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Princeton Mom to All Female Students: ‘Find a Husband’

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Horrifyingly retro advice in Daily Princetonian.

Photo: Cynthia Hart/Corbis In the mid-seventies, Susan A. Patton was among the “200 pioneer women” to join Princeton University’s previously all-male student body. As president of her alumni class, she recently attended an Anne-Marie Slaughter–endorsed “Women and Leadership” event that “allowed current undergraduate women to speak informally with older and presumably wiser alumnae.” But the “girls” in attendance “glazed over” discussing careerism, she found. So today she wrote an open letter to The Daily Princetonian telling “the daughters I never had” what she wished she’d said: Forget about

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