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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow .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 now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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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 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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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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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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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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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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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 supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
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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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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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