Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

		Name: Victoria Woodhull Type: Activist Nationality: American Birth: September 23, 1838 Death: June 9, 1927