Which evidence from the passage best supports the author's claim that women are oppressed? A
"Men complain, and with reason, of the follies and caprices of our sex, when they do
not keenly satirize our headstrong passions and groveling vices." (paragraph 3)
В.
"Yet it should seem, allowing them to have souls, that there is but one way appointed
by providence to lead MANKIND to either virtue or happiness." (paragraph 2)
C.
"The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding
as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart, or, in other words, to
enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will renderit independent."
(paragraph 5)
D.
"Rousseau declares that a woman should never, for a moment, feel herself
independent, that she should be governed by fear to exercise her NATURAL cunning,
and made a coquettish slave in order to render her a more alluring object of desire."
(paragraph 7)