Originally Posted by queerpunk
was it susan b anthony who called the bicycle the invention that did the most to liberate women? if somebody could scare up that quote and citation, i'd appreciate it.
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“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling,” Miss Anthony said, leaning forward and laying a slender hand on my arm. “I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
--Susan B. Anthony, interviewed by Nellie Bly
New York World, February 2, 1896