I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Independence is happiness.
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.