Review Alice Walker’s poem “Women” to answer the following question:

They were women then
My mama’s generation
Husky of voice—stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Head ragged generals
Across mined
Fields
trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves.

Which line from the poem represents an implied metaphor?

They were women then
With fists as well as / Hands
And ironed / Starched white / Shirts
How they led / Armies