Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martinwas an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth23 September 1838
CountryUnited States of America
children thinking abortion
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
rights arena possessed
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
dark enemy strikes
Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
country hands order
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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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?
men treats fairs
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
sex government voice
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
voice rights government
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
suicide husband wife
The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
country believe people
You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
children educational blow
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.
men occupation
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
men feminist demand
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.