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

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Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was an American social reformer, theosophist, and the first woman to run for President of the United States on a major party ticket. She was a prominent figure in the women's suffrage movement and the labor movement. more

“The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions; the trick to living alone up here, away from all agitating entanglements, allurements, and expectations, apart especially from one's own intensity, is to organize the silence, to think of its mountaintop plenitude as capital, silence as wealth exponentially increasing. The encircling silence as your chosen source of advantage and your only intimate.”

Source: The Human Stain: A Novel

“Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.”

People Knows Rooms Talking Generations Streets Teaching Walking American History Broadway Manhattan Eighteen Talking To Yourself

Book:The Human Stain

Source: The Human Stain

Quote by Victoria Woodhull

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