Victoria Woodhull Quotes

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

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

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  Tags in Differently, Suffrage, Opposition

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

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

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• To go behind a man’s hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

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  Tags in Unfair, Opposition, Cowardly, Behind

• 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.

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  Tags in Government, Altogether, Spite

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Hypocrisy, Stead, Wail, Beheld, Corruption

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Issue, Absolutely, Refuse

• 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.

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

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

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• 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?

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• I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

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

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  Tags in Course, Independence, Sufferage, Desire

• 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.

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  Tags in Anticipate, Candidate, Presidency, Sincerity

• I endeavor to make the most of everything.

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• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

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• I come before you to declare that my se* are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Victoria Woodhull (27)

Birth:	23rd September, 1838
Death:	9th June, 1927
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Leader

About

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement.
Woodhull was an advocate of free love, by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce, and bear children without government interference. She was the first woman to start a weekly newspaper; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms. In 1872, she was the first female candidate for President of the United States.

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