Victoria Woodhull Quotes
"To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Man, Opposition)
"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."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Government, Power, Women, Being, Country, Law, Order)
"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Women, Citizenship, Right)
"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."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Dreams, Society, Wife, Soul, Corruption, Facts, Hypocrisy, Visions, Wail)
"I endeavor to make the most of everything."
- Victoria Woodhull
"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."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Men, Women, Victory, Independence)
"It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Love, Christian, Difference, Old, Want)
"If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Men, Women, Today)
"My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Criticism, Opinions, Principles, Public)
"I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Conservatism, Decency, Want)
"I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Change, Desire)
"When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Heart)
"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Life, Man, Occupations, Woman)
"Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?"
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Man, Woman)
"I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint."
- Victoria Woodhull
"For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Financial, Profanity, Question, Woman)
"While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Time)
"I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Change, Love, Day, May, Right)
"My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Love, Judges, Practice)
"I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Government, Sex, Voice)
"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Freedom, Resignation, Will)
"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Happiness, Life, Sex, Liberty, Pursuit, Right)
"By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?"
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Right, states, United, Vote)
"Women have no government."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Government, Women)
"I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Trust, Criticism, Now, Presidency, Question, Sincerity, Will)
"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Opposition, Succeed, Will, Woman)
"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Government, Happiness, Rights, Voice)