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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.
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 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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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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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 do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
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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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Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.
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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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Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
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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 and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.
Victoria Woodhull
Women have every right they just have to excercise them.
Victoria Woodhull
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
Victoria Woodhull
While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
Victoria Woodhull
I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.
Victoria Woodhull
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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