Our latest feature, the Sunday quote, debuts a day late. This is an inauspicious start. But let us not be distracted by minor glitches and human failings. Instead, consider this, which we found in Robert Penn’s wonderful It’s All About the Bike, about which more later:

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 a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance…the moment she takes her seat, she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood.

                        — Susan B. Anthony, New York World interview, February 2, 1896

Photo of Woman cycling in Brisbane, 1890-1900, via Wikimedia Commons