Suffragists Centennial Motorcycle Ride
The Suffragists Centennial Motorcycle Ride is a cross-country motorcycle event celebrating the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, women’s right to vote. Celebrating the principles of unity, community, and freedom of the road, the event is dedicated to all women who have fought for equality in the voting booth, in business, and in life.
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It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
You can't test courage cautiously.
I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
"Woman can if she will."
"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish."
“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.”
"We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach."
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
"Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength."
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."
“A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”
"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back."
“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”
"People don’t take trips, trips take people."
"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
About the Ride
The Centennial Motorcycle Ride is a nationwide celebration starting in Portland, Oregon on July 31, 2021. Nationwide festivities run through August 22, 2021n including the Grand Finale Celebration at the Women’s Motorcycle Conference in Arlington, Virginia on August 19-22, 2021.
The Organizers
The Centennial Ride is brought to you by Alisa Clickenger and Women’s Motorcycle Tours, with the help of a dedicated team of motorcycle wonder women. We produced the 2016 Sisters’ Centennial Motorcycle Ride, celebrating the achievements of the Van Buren sisters –the first women to each ride her own motorcycle across the USA in 1916. #ByWomenForWomen
FAQ
Got questions? This is where you’ll find answers to many questions and the many ways to participate – for a day, a week, or for the entire nationwide celebration.
