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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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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 know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.
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I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.
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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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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
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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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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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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.
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The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
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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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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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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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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It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .
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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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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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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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I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.
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You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
Victoria Woodhull
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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