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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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 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 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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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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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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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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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?
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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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I believe in Spiritualism I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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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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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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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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