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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
— Victoria Woodhull
I'd rather be free in Hell than in chains in America."--Victoria Woodhull in The Renegade Queen
— Eva Flynn
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
— Victoria Woodhull
Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
— Victoria Woodhull
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
— Victoria Claflin Woodhull
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
— Victoria Woodhull
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
— Victoria Woodhull
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
— Victoria Woodhull
I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
— Victoria Woodhull
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
— Victoria Woodhull
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
— Victoria Woodhull
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
— Victoria Woodhull
Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good ...
— Victoria Woodhull
The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
— Victoria Woodhull
Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.
— Victoria Woodhull
I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
— Victoria Woodhull
So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
— Victoria Woodhull
Women have no government.
— Victoria Woodhull
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.
— Victoria Woodhull
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
— Victoria Woodhull
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
— Victoria Woodhull
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
— Victoria Woodhull
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
— Victoria Woodhull
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
— Victoria Woodhull
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
— Victoria Woodhull
When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.
— Victoria Woodhull
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
— Victoria Woodhull
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.
— Victoria Woodhull
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
— Victoria Woodhull
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.
— Victoria Woodhull
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
— Victoria Woodhull
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
— Victoria Woodhull
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
— Victoria Woodhull
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
— Victoria Woodhull
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.
— Victoria Woodhull
I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
— Victoria Woodhull
It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people ...
— Victoria Woodhull
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
— Victoria Woodhull
All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow ...
— Victoria Woodhull
I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
— Victoria Woodhull
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
— Victoria Claflin Woodhull
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
— Victoria Woodhull
I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
— Victoria Woodhull
Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.
— Gloria Steinem
