Victoria Woodhull Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Onward And Upward, Political, Intellectual

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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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?

  Victoria Woodhull

  Would Be, Firsts, Action

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom”, p.30

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• Women have no government.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Government

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Dream, Agony, Evil

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• For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

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  Aggravation, Financial, Profanity

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• I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Sacrifice, Victim, Made

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Broken Heart, Children, Broken Promises

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Lust, World, Disease

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• I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

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  Perfection, Heaven, Purity

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Husband, Blood, House

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Husband, Home

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• The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Rights, Abortion

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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!

  Victoria Woodhull

  Girl, Lying, Divorce

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Practice, Editors, Principles

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Want, Places To Go, Faces

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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.

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  Inspiration, Heaven, Soul

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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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  Sex, Understanding, Ignorant

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom”, p.31

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• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

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  Hands, Shakes, Standpoint

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• To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Mean, Men, Doors

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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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  Political, Use, Matter

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• I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.

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  Matter, Suits, Chance

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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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  Husband, Perfect, Wife

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• I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

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  Husband, Angel, Impossible

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