Quotes by Victoria Woodhull

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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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It is extremely unfortunate that an editor’s own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
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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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.
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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Woman’s ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
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 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.
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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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.
Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good...
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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good...
All talk of women’s rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
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All talk of women’s rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter...
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No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter...
To go behind a man’s hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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To go behind a man’s hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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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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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