Victoria Woodhull Quotes

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

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. Victoria Woodhull

Women, Citizenship, Right, Suffrage

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

Dreams, Wife, Soul, Great, Society

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman? Victoria Woodhull

Man, Woman, Treat, She, Her, Fair

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? Victoria Woodhull

Future, Women, Government, Listen, Left

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. Victoria Woodhull

Woman, Succeed, Miserable, Why, Will

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

Love, Loved, Black, You, Young, Want

Women have no government. Victoria Woodhull

Women, Government

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it. Victoria Woodhull

Good, Time, Others, Coming, Good Time

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. Victoria Woodhull

Change, Better, Desire, Because, Who

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. Victoria Woodhull

Women, Today, Men, Rise, Demand, Would

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. Victoria Woodhull

Woman, Financial, Question, Over

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

Government, Voice, Find, Sex, Others

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly. Victoria Woodhull

Love, Practice, Free, Judges, Preach

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

Love, Change, Day, I Am, Short, Long

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. Victoria Woodhull

Happiness, Government, I Am, Voice, Ask

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? Victoria Woodhull

Vote, You, Citizen, Right, Accept

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

Women, Men, Victory, Independence, Week

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. Victoria Woodhull

Life, Man, Woman, More, Herself, Than

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. Victoria Woodhull

Heart, Child, Broken, Birth, Human, Had

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. Victoria Woodhull

Man, Mean, Unfair, Go, 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

Women, Power, Government, Law, Hands

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. Victoria Woodhull

Myself, Opinions, Criticism, Principles

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

Face, Place, Want, Go, Decency, Like

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

Trust, Myself, Criticism, Sincerity, Now

I endeavor to make the most of everything. Victoria Woodhull

Everything, Endeavor, Most, Make

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint. Victoria Woodhull

Hands, Shake, Sanitary, Standpoint

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