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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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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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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.
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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
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I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
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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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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.
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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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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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