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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.
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It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.
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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.
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There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.
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