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I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
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 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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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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All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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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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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.
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Women have no government.
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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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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 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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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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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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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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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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The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
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I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
Victoria Woodhull
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.
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
Victoria Woodhull
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
Victoria Woodhull
