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Women have no government.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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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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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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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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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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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.
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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 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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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
Victoria Woodhull
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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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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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 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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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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