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The Worst Pieces of
Advice From Susan
Patton’s Marry Smart
SUSAN PATTON, also known as
“The Princeton Mom,” first caught
the public eye in March 2013,
when she published a letter to
the editor in The Daily Princetonian. The letter advised the young
female students at Patton’s alma
mater to seek husbands while at
Princeton rather than dating the
lower-quality men they’d meet in
their post-college lives, and to dedicate more of their time and energy
to finding a good husband rather
than focusing on their careers.
Less than one year after that initial
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