Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. - Susan B. Anthony

I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk to women who are comfortably circumstanced, to those who have good fathers, kind brothers and have married the best of men, who do not believe that husband and wife are one and he is the one.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. 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.