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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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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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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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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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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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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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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 went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
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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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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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 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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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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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 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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