Read this following excerpt from "What I Hope to Leave Behind."
This selection suggests that when Eleanor Roosevelt
gave her speech, most women
worked in the home.
had many children.
wanted new careers.
Most women dream first of a happy family. The instinct
for reproduction is inborn in most of us. If we have
known happy homes, we want to reproduce the same
type of thing we have had; and even though we may
always be critical of some things in our past, time
nearly always puts a halo around even a few of the
disagreeable things, and most women dream, as they
rock their babies or busy themselves in household
tasks, that their daughters will do the same things
someday.
were critical of the past.