Bicycling Quote by Frances E. Willard

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.…

— Susan B. Anthony

“A plaster girl with intense glass eyes sat astride a bicycle pedaling at the maddest pace; though its wheel spokes spun hypnotically, the bicycle…

— Truman Capote

“The old fables, myths, and follies associated with the idea of woman's incompetence to handle bat and oar, bridle and rein, and at last…

— Mike H. Mizrahi

“In 1895, Ann Strong declared in the Minneapolis Tribune that bicycles were "just as good company as most husbands" and that when a bicycle…

— Frances E. Willard

“The absurdity of it, she thought, this quest for the love of a man who was her equal. She loathed herself for it. She…

— Glen Duncan

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

“Bicycling, the way I think of it, is solitary, and if it’s going to stand for anything in a narrative, it might as well…

— Bruce Weber

“Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.”

— James E. Starrs

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

“In the late 19th century, women cyclists were warned they might get 'bicycle face,' giving them a jutting chin and bulging eyes.”

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“We are captivated by the feminine shadow of the self we might have been; in my case by that counterpart of the romantic writer…

— Cyril Connolly