Desire Quotes by Victoria Woodhull

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

— Victoria Woodhull

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

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

— Victoria Woodhull

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

— Victoria Woodhull

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which…

— Victoria Woodhull

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

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

— Victoria Woodhull

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

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

— Victoria Woodhull

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

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

— Victoria Woodhull

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

— Victoria Woodhull