Bikes Are Freedom – Freedom for 19th Century Women
“I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
This was Susan B. Anthony, famous women’s rights activist and suffragette. What was this incredible thing that, in her mind, represented “untrammeled womanhood?”