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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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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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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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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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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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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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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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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 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 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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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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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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