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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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 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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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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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 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 shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can to change that love every day if I please.
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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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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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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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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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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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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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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 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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