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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.
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 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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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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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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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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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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