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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

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

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

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

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

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

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good ...

The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

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

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

Women have no government.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

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

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

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

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

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.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

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.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

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

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people ...

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow ...

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

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.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.