Words matter. These are the best Victoria Woodhull Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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?
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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 shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
To go behind a man’s hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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.
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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.
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla 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.
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
