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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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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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Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
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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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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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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 and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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Women have no government.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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Women have every right they just have to excercise 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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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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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 rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
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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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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.
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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.
Victoria Woodhull
I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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