Victoria Woodhull Quotes

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.

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.

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

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.

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.

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

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

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

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

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

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

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

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

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

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.

I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

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

Women have no government.

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

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.

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.

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

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