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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can to change that love every day if I please.
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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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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 offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
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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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A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.
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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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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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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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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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 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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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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