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 I 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 . . .
[T]ell 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 . . .