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Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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.
Victoria Woodhull
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
Victoria Woodhull
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
Victoria Woodhull
Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
Victoria Woodhull
I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
Victoria Woodhull
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
Victoria Woodhull
Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
Victoria Woodhull
The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
Victoria Woodhull
So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
Victoria Woodhull
The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
Victoria Woodhull
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Victoria Woodhull
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Victoria Woodhull
It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
Victoria Woodhull
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Victoria Woodhull
I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
