Answer:
The women were unaware of their actions.
Step-by-step explanation:
Alice Walker's poem "Women" talks of the various struggles of every women/ mother in maintaining the house and looking after the family. She depicts them as "generals in a battlefield", who had to endure a lot of pressure and hardships in their everyday lives.
Walker shows the strength and perseverance of the mothers for their children's future, education and happiness. The poem written in free verse shows the dedication and hard work of these strong women even sometimes way beyond their own expectations. The lines
"How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves. "
are from the closing part of the sentence which could mean that even the women themselves sometimes were unable to understand or were unaware of their actions.