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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.

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 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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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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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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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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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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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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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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
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