Victoria Woodhull Quotes

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There are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.

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

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

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

Victoria Woodhull
So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

Victoria Woodhull
There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.

Victoria Woodhull
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
All which is good and commendable, now existing, would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed to-morrow... 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...

Victoria Woodhull
The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression... by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

Victoria Woodhull
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons... and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery.... All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

Victoria Woodhull
Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good...

Victoria Woodhull
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted... and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

Victoria Woodhull
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

Victoria Woodhull
It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

Victoria Woodhull
It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people...

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.

Victoria Woodhull
A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives.... In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at... the most demoralizing of all monopolies... educational superiority.

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
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