Victoria Woodhull Quotes

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• There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Husband, Men, Needs

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• 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

  Change, Long, May

  Woodhull and Claflin'sWeekly, 20 Nov. 1871

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• No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Sister, Daughter, Mother

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• 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

  Country, People, Poverty

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Impending Revolution”, p.18

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

  Victoria Woodhull

  Time, Good Times

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1871). “The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future”, p.19

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• I endeavor to make the most of everything.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, History, Endeavor

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• The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Equality, Government

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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

  Victoria Woodhull

  Exercise, Essence, Sin

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Great Social Problem of Labor & Capital Delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City ... May 8, 1871, Before the Labor Reform League”, p.32

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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?

  Victoria Woodhull

  Mother, Women, Government

  "A Lecture on Constitutional Equality / The Great Secession Speech". Speech to Woman's Suffrage Convention, New York, May 11, 1871.

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• 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

  Christian, Love You, Mean

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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

  Victoria Woodhull

  Desire, Management, Assuming

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• Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women

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• 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

  Trust, Criticism, Sincerity

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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.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Issues, Feminist

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• Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Men, Brutality, Vote

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• The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Mother, Children, Rights

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

  Victoria Woodhull

  Succeed, Miserable, Woman Suffrage

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• All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Exercise, Rights, Moonshine

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• 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

  Taken, Law, People

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

  Victoria Woodhull

  Want, Lovers, Free Love

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Tears, Depth, Slavery

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• 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

  Sex, Government, Voice

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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

  Victoria Woodhull

  Men, Treats, Fairs

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

  Victoria Woodhull

  Love Is

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom”, p.39

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• I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Rights, Arena, Possessed

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1871). “The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future”, p.19

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