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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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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.
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Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
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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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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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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 believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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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 do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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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 boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
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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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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can to change that love every day if I please.
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