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
american-activist principles subjects
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
perfection heaven purity
I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
sacrifice victim made
I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
husband perfect wife
I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.
suits matter chance
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
husband angel impossible
I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
children husband home
I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.
husband blood house
One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.
political matter use
Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
wish assuming speak
I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.
country children men
Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.
bears advocating curse
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
girl lying divorce
No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!
women
Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.