Oh! Maude! How can you want to be a surgeon? I should die if I saw a man cut up and mangled; but you are a marvel!

–“A Century Ride,”
Grace E. Denison

Based on this passage, what was expected of women at this time?

Women were expected to do all the difficult jobs.
Women were still widely thought of as too delicate and sensitive to be doctors.
Women were seen as incapable of rational thought.
Women were thought to be cold and unfeeling, and therefore ill-equipped to work as doctors.