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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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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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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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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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I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.
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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 no government.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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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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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.
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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 endeavor to make the most of everything.
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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
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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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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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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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there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.
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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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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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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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