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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?

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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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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there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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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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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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Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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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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 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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