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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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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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 shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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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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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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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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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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