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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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 was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
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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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I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.
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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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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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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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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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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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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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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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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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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 uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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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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