Victoria Woodhull quotes

Victoria Woodhull was an American suffragist, activist, and the first woman to run for President of the United States. A pioneer for women's rights and social reform, her work challenged conventions of her time. She remains a symbol of courage and progress in the fight for gender equality. Here are 34 of her quotes:

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

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

Victoria Woodhull

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

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

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

Victoria Woodhull

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth.

Victoria Woodhull

Of all the horrid brutalities of our age, I know of none so horrid as those that are sanctioned and defended by marriage. Night after night, there are thousands of rapes committed, under cover of this accursed license; and millions-yes I say it boldly, knowing whereof I speak-millions of poor, heart broken, suffering wives are compelled to minister to the lechery of insatiable husbands, when every instinct of body and sentiment of soul revolts in lathing and disgust.... The world has got to be startled from this pretense into realizing that there is nothing else now existing among pretendedly enlightened nations, except marriage, that invests men with the right to debauch women, sexually, against their wills, yet marriage is held to be synonymous with morality! I say, eternal damnation, sink such morality! ...

Victoria Woodhull

Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere.

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They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform... The world moves.

Victoria Woodhull

The rights of children, then, as individuals, begin while yet they are in fetal life. Children do not come into existence by any will or consent of their own.

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I endeavor to make the most of everything. (Victoria Woodhull)

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

Victoria Woodhull

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

Victoria Woodhull

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Victoria Woodhull

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

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

Victoria Woodhull

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

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

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

Victoria Woodhull

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

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

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

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

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

Women have no government.

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull

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Occupation: American Suffragist
Born: September 23, 1838
Died: June 9, 1927
Quotes count: 34
Wikipedia: Victoria Woodhull

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