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On the road to emancipation

These quotes credit the bicycle as a surprising symbol of practical emancipation for women in an earlier era.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.

Quotes by Susan Vreeland

First Generation
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Nov 07, 2020

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

Quotes by Marina Warner

Liberty
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Nov 07, 2020

For me, driving - or the right to drive - is not only about moving from A to B; it's a way to emancipate women. It gives them so much liberty. It makes them independent.

Quotes by Manal al-Sharif

Chains
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Nov 07, 2020

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Quotes by Clara Zetkin

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Eighteenth Century
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Nov 07, 2020

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Quotes by C. L. R. James

Others link emancipation to driving and independence, or argue that reforms alone can ease but not fully emancipate workers from capitalism's constraints.

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