Read this excerpt from "what i hope to leave behind.” she will know that she has to make some sacrifice as far as her own life is concerned, and for that reason you will find more and more women analyzing what are the really valuable things in human life, deciding whether a job of some kind will be worthwhile for them from several points of view, whether it will give them sufficient financial return to provide for the doing of certain household things better than they could do themselves, and whether the job they do will give them more satisfaction and make them better-rounded people and, therefore, more companionable and worthwhile in their associations with the human beings that make up their home life. what would be the reason for paraphrasing this excerpt for a general audience? you could simplify the language and references so that most people could understand this excerpt. you could break down the sentence into shorter ones that might be easier for some people to grasp. you could explain how the main idea within the excerpt relates to the central themes of the passage. you could reorder each idea in sequence, which would clarify how the author develops her ideas.