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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement.

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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.

Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Child, Children, Heart, Imbecile

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.

Against, Blood, House, Husband, Same

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.

Children, Home, Husband, Stage, Theatrical

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted. . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

Citizens, Criminal, Criminals, Death, Reform

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Assume, Assuming, Course, Desire, Management

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.

Husband, Legal, Men, Needs, Whole

A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at. . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

Children, Culture, Educational, Responsibility, Strikes, Useful

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

Hands, Sanitary, Shake, Shakes, Standpoint

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

Equality, Foster, Government, Promote, Women

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Accountable, Happiness, Rights, Voice, Women

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.

Light, Rudely, Saws, Seemed, Sleep

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.

False, Husband, Perfect, Relation, Sanctification, Wife

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.

Ascertained, Basis, Government, Mean, Republican Government, Sex

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

Criticism, Opinion, Opinions, Principles, Subjects

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Endeavor, Everything, History, Make, Women

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.

Change, Free, Inalienable, Long, May, Short

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

Chance, Libel, Matter, Suits, Take

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Advocating, Bear, Bears, Curse, Freedom, Resignation

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

Angel, Corruption, Husband, Impossible

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.

Grew, Heaven, Inspiration, Moment, Side, Soul

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