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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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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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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
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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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I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
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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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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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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.
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The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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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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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
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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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I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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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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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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I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
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