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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.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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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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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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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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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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Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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