Read the following excerpt from a room of one's own by virginia woolf:
[a]ny woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century
would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended
her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half
witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at. for it needs little
skill in psychology to be sure that a happily gifted girl who
had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so
thwarted and hindered by other people.
which statement best states the idea that this excerpt to develop?

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".