Victoria Woodhull Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I endeavor to make the most of everything.”
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“Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.”
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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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“While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.”
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“My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.”
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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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“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 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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“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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“there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.”
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“All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow .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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“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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“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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“Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good ...”
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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 sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.”
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“To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.”
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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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“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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“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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“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 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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“Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.”
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“Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.”
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“Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.”
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“No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!”
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“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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“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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“Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.”
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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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