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Women have no government.
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull
The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.
Victoria Woodhull
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
Victoria Woodhull
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
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
Victoria Woodhull
Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
Victoria Woodhull
No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
Victoria Woodhull
It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Woodhull
Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
Victoria Woodhull
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Victoria Woodhull
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull
While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
Victoria Woodhull
I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
Victoria Woodhull
I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.
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
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria Woodhull
