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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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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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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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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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Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
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