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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?
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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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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
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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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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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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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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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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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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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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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A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.
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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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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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