All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . . — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty,… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share
