Victoria Woodhull Quotes

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

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.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

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.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

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.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

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.