Answer:
A “Well, that is a brilliant idea, Miss Blackwell, but clearly it is an impossible one.”
Explanation:
Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to become a doctor, she went to an old family firend to tell him of her intentions to enter medical school and his risponse was that it was a brilliant idea but it wasn´t possible, because of the society, and because in that time women weren´t allowed to study or pursue a career, that is why the line from the excerpt that best describes the limitations that women faced during Elizabeth times is :
<em>“Well, that is a brilliant idea, Miss Blackwell, but clearly it is an impossible one.”</em>
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