Prompt Explain how the writer develops the idea of independence over the course of the poem. What do Voices have to do with independence? How
is mending or saving lives related to independence? Limit your response to 150 words, and remember to support your explanation with evidence
from the text

As to their costume, the gentlemen need feel no fear of our imitating that, for we think it in violation of every principle of taste, beauty, and dignity; notwithstanding all the contempt cast upon our loose, flowing garments, we still admire the graceful folds, and consider our costume far more artistic than theirs

We do not propose to petition the legislature to make our husbands just, generous, and courteous, to seat every man at the head of a cradle, and to clothe every woman in male attire