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I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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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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I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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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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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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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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Women have no government.
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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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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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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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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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