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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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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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When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.
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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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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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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.
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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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.
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Women have no government.
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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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