A Quote by Victoria Woodhull

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

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull
American - Activist
September 23, 1838 - June 9, 1927

A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed. In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.

Warren Farrell

The husband who 'serves' his wife by continually yielding to her desires or her wishes is in fact asking her to do his job for him. He's ignoring his responsibility to lead.

Bob Lepine

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

Ana Castillo

The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is a test of her love for God as well as a test of love for her husband. The wife then must look upon her submission to her husband as an act of obedience to Christ and not merely to her husband.

Wayne Mack

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas Huxley

No one commits suicide because they want to die.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]

George Herbert

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

Octavio Paz

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

Khalil Gibran

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Edward Dahlberg

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Benjamin Tucker

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

Susan B. Anthony

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Henri Barbusse

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