Question

Which excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" best refutes the anti-suffragist idea that women were too fragile to handle the right to vote?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman!
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!

Answer 1

"I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!"

This line directly refutes the claim of female fragility by citing hard physical labor and self‑reliance—showing she was strong, capable, and equal in endurance and responsibility, therefore fully fit for the rights (like voting) that anti‑suffragists denied.