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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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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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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
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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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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
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It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .
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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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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow .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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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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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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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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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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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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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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I believe in Spiritualism I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.
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