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
aggravation financial profanity
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
sex understanding ignorant
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.
men reason score
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.
love-is
Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good ...
sex mean race
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.
practice judging free-love
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
women common citizenship
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
sex pursuit-of-happiness liberty
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
exercise essence sin
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
want places-to-go faces
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
law tomorrow ifs
All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .
onward-and-upward political intellectual
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.
exercise rights moonshine
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
criticism principles opinion
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.