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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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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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Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.
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Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
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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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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 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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Women have no government.
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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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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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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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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 believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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