Victoria Woodhull Quotes

Victoria Woodhull (27)

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

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

  Victoria Woodhull

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  Tags in Course, Independence, Sufferage, Desire

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

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  Tags in Advocating, Resignation, Denounce, Curse

• 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

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Stead, Wail, Beheld, Corruption

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

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  Tags in Financial, Profanity, Shuddered, Consider

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

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  Tags in Citizen, Vote, Refuse

• 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

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

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  Tags in Preach, Openly, Judges

• 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

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

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  Tags in Pursue, Accountable, Voice

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

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  Tags in Unfair, Opposition, Cowardly, Behind

• 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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  Tags in Imbecile

• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Topics in Money, Risk

  Tags in Entrepreneurs, Support

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revile

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Period, Whom, Inalienable, Lover

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

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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 Suffrage, Opposition, Differently

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

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  Tags in Qualify, Occupations, Herself, Onerous

• 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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  Tags in Pagan, Black Or White

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

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  Tags in Suffrage, Citizenship

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

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  Tags in Compelled, Emancipation, Masse