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Which excerpt from Eighty Years and More supports the theme that everyone deserves equality in the eyes of the
law?
Until I was sixteen years old, I was a faithful student in the Johnstown Academy with a class of boys Though
was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages
Thus was the future object of my life foreshadowed and my duty plainly outlined by (my father) who was most
opposed to my public career when in due time, I entered upon it
I dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the
same [forcefulness) as they did each other's
Tell them all you have seen in this office--the sufferings of these Scotch women, robbed of their inheritance and
left dependent on their unworthy sons

The best answer to the question: Which excerpt from "Eighty Years and More" supports the theme that everyone deserves equality in the eyes of the law, would be, D: Tell them all you have seen in this office- the sufferings of these Scotch women, robbed of their inheriitance and left dependent on their unworthy sons..."

Explanation:

"Eighty Years and More, Reminiscenses 1815 - 1897" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton is an autobigraphical narration writen by Stanton on her own life and experiences as a woman, a mother, a wife, a householder and a fighter for the rights of women. Although the author herself establishes that Eighty Years does not have the same intent as her best known work "The History of Woman Suffrage", she also mentions facts of her own life that fed her intention to push through the concepts and ideals of the women´s liberation movement. From the excerpts shown here in the list, number four would be the best one to show how Stanton felt about women´s rights, and how these should have been placed at the same level as those of men. Calling upon the suffering of Scottish women, who were totally dependent on their sons, and therefore on men, even if they were independent in their own right, shows how strongly Stanton believed that everyone should be held equal when it came to applying the law. Those Scottish women should have been given their right over their inheritance instead of it being passed on to their sons, just because they were men.