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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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 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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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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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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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 ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
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The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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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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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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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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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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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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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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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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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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