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You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
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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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
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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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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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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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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
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The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
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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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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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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 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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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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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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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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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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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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There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
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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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