Why?

How will thee subject me to this charge?

Is it not you that boasts of knowledge,

You that the world deems superior? My protector?

Why then do you lay this burden

On one so undiscerning and ignorant?

Could I have known and if to know,

how so ignorant then?

For only love and freedom I wished for

And to understand you more fully.

Is this my crime and all our sexes’ ambition?

Who from your side I sprang,

And your side being faultless, how may I be anything less?

Set free my sisters and my daughters!

Renounce your claim on these poor souls

For they are your mothers, sisters and daughters as well.