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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

Jane Addams had a thing or two to say about ladies and their bikes…

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