Scott Motherhood: A Woman’s Prison In the early years of the past century, women were perceived as being weak-minded individuals who needed a man to survive. This particular idea that women should be submissive to men was strongly stressed in Theodore Roosevelt’s Address to the National Congress of Mothers in 1905. In this address Roosevelt made many statements about the role of women. One of the most significant quotes was “that the primary duty …showed first 75 words of 867 total…

…showed last 75 words of 867 total…the world. Gilman opposes the assumption that women are to only be mothers and that men are superior. Women have lots of strong points that have been discovered and voiced over the past century. They have grown to hold careers of their own outside of and including motherhood and expanding their minds through higher degrees of education. These facts and others prove Gilman’s thoughts to be correct, and that all assumptions cannot be believed.