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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow .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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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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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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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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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
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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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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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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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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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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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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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