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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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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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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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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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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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