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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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The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.
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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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I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair 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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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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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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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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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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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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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It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .
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The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.
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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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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
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Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
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