Quotes from Victoria Woodhull

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

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

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

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.

Women have no government.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

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

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

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.

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.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

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

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.