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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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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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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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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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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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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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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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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.
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I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.
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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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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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