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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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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
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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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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
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I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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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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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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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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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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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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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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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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