Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?" That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Which 1850s social norm is reflected in the excerpt about white women? the idea that women should look delicate and be handled delicately the idea that women should avoid too many intellectual pursuits the idea that women should devote themselves to becoming a mother the idea that women should be more practical and less sentimental.