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. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. — 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 Image
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. — 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 murder. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
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 Image
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
