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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.

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.
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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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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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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?
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You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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 believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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 believe in Spiritualism I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.
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