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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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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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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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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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