Read the passage. excerpt from Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Which details from the text best highlight the contradiction between men’s perception of women as physically and emotionally weak and women’s reality?

Select the two correct answers.

"By ascertaining the true destiny of Woman; giving her legitimate hopes, and a standard within herself; marriage and all other relations would by degrees be harmonized with these rights."

"Not only does the Native American woman carry the burdens of the camp, but the favorites of Louis XIV accompany him in his journeys, and the washerwoman stands at her tub, and carries home her work at all seasons, and in all states of health."

"We need not try to measure how often this happens. For who can review the experience of just the last week without recalling words which imply, whether in jest or earnest, these views, or views like these."

"As to the possibility of her filling with grace and dignity any government or leadership position, we should think those who had seen the great actresses, and heard the Quaker preachers of modern times, would not doubt that Woman can express publicly the fullness of thought and creation, without losing any of the peculiar beauty of her sex."