I endeavor to make the most of everything.
From Victoria Woodhull
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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.
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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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