Quotes from Victoria Woodhull

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

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.

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

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

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 endeavor to make the most of everything.

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.

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

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

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

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.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

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

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.

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

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

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.

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.

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.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.