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Quote #10
She thought she was rescuing him from the night women who […] wanted her to settle for wifely competence when she could be almighty, to settle for fertility rather than originality, nurturing instead of building. (9.287)
Jade can't help but think that living in Eloe with Son and becoming a housewife would be an unfulfilling, primitive form of life. She's more interested in the things she thinks are developed, like big cities, fancy clothes, and university education.