Based on these two excerpts, you can surmise that Eleanor
Roosevelt
Read these two short excerpts from "What I Hope to Leave
Behind."
Most women dream first of a happy family. The instinct for
reproduction is inborn in most of us.
I find I have a sense of satisfaction whenever I learn that
there is a new field being opened up where women may
enter. A woman will rejoice in her freedom to enter on a new
career.
wanted to acknowledge the importance of motherhood
while also encouraging women to pursue new
opportunities.
believed that training for a career was important, but
raising children was more important.
wanted to suggest that job skills must be learned, while
motherhood is instinctual.
believed that women should pursue new fields, while her
audience assumed that women should raise children,