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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.
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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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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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I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.
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I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.
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I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow .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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It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?
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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
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The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
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