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Susan B Anthony: [Bicycling] has done...

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[Bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.

Source: Speech, 1896; in Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, ch. 46, by Ida Husted Harper, 1989.
-- Susan B Anthony, (Feb 15 1820-1906), US social reformer, suffragist; She was a social reformer and champion for women's rights; co-founder of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1869.


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