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
women
Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.
women government
Women have no government.
women common citizenship
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
mother daughter women
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....
women endeavor
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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.