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Emancipate Quotes

On the road to emancipation

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

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...

Quotes by Susan Vreeland

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...

Quotes by Marina Warner

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

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

Ale Quotes

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What role did the bicycle play in emancipating women, according to these quotes?
One quote credits the bicycle as the single biggest factor in freeing women, becoming a lasting symbol of practical independence.
How is emancipation linked to appearance and ambition?
One quote describes emancipating women from having to choose between caring about clothes and being taken seriously as ambitious.
Does driving factor into this idea of emancipation?
Yes, one quote frames the right to drive as a way to emancipate women, giving them liberty and independence beyond simple transportation.
Is emancipation from capitalism discussed here?
Yes, one quote argues that reforms can ease the burden of capitalism but aren't enough to fully emancipate workers from it.
What common thread connects these emancipation quotes?
Each ties emancipation to a concrete tool or right, like a bicycle, driving, or workplace reform, rather than treating it as abstract.

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