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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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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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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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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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 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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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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