The Notorious V-I-C That's short for Victoria, and I was and am notorious because I dared to speak of sex ("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") I was also notorious because I was the embodiment of Whitman's words ('Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large, I contain multitudes'): practicing Christian principles although I was opposed to organized religion, the first to publish in America The Communist Manifesto in English at the same time Tennie and I were working as the first female stockbrokers, etc. I gave a speech in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Hall on February 16, 1871 Here is part of that speech: "I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the