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 rights abortion
The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.
rights arena possessed
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
voice rights government
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
exercise rights moonshine
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
mother children rights
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.
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.