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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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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 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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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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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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 believe in Spiritualism I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.
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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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Women have no government.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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