While the World Is Still Asleep Quotes

“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 . . . Susan B. Anthony, social reformer, 1896 Chapter One Berlin, November 1891 Barnim Road Women’s Prison Josephine looked around anxiously.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“woman named Mary French Sheldon, who had set off the year before on an expedition to East Africa. Her aim was mainly to research the living conditions of women and children there. As if anyone would take any notice! Jo thought as she read. African women probably led lives that were as hard as those of their German or English or French counterparts.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“touring and racing tires. A firm from Magdeburg”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“Josephine closed her eyes. She could”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“Your daughter wants to study at the university?” Gropius”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“it gives you! The speed . . . It’s like you’re flying. And”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“only imagine what that took.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“never”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“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 . . . Susan B. Anthony, social reformer, 1896”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“When self-interest and the common good meet, the market can be said to be steered by an invisible hand.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“America. What a huge, crazy country. Now”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep

“I used to be strong, and I want to be strong again, but I don’t have the slightest idea how to make that happen.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, While the World Is Still Asleep