Read the excerpt from Eighty Years and More:
Reminiscences, 1815-1897
Which best retells the central idea in this excerpt?
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Stanton's childhood wish for her father to value her like a
son shaped her actions for the rest of her life.
Stanton's childhood desire to get an education provided
her with more opportunities for her future.
Stanton's father would never value his daughters as much
as he valued his one and only son.
Stanton's father would appreciate his daughter more if
she learned Greek and knew how to manage a horse.
Then and there I resolved that I would not give so much time
as heretofore to play, but would study and strive to be at the
head of all my classes and thus delight my father's heart. All
that day and far into the night I pondered the problem of
boyhood. I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to
equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided
to study Greek and learn to manage a horse. Having formed
this conclusion I fell asleep. My resolutions, unlike many such
made at night, did not vanish with the coming light. I arose
early and hastened to put them into execution. They were
resolutions never to be forgotten—destined to mold my
character anew
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