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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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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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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?
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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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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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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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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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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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I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
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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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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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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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