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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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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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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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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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Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can to change that love every day if I please.
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I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
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