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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.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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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 boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
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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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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 do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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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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One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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