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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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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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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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 do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.
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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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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.
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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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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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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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