Read an excerpt from a speech that could have been given during the fight for voting rights in the 1800s.
1) Women today are fighting for their rights and are not letting others make their decisions for them. 2) Many women and girls are being educated today in the ways of the world, no longer just in the ways of the home. 3) For how many more years will women, who are just as intelligent as their brothers, be kept from the voting booths? 4) How terrible it would be if a woman who is informed on the issues of the day would be allowed to vote on them!
Which statement from the speech is an example of irony?
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