Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Victoria Woodhull
Age: 89 †
Born: 1838
Born: January 1
Died: 1927
Died: January 1
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Political Leader
Politician
Stockbroker
Suffragette
Suffragist
Homer
Ohio
Victoria Claflin
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Victoria Martin
Victoria Woodhull Martin
Victoria California Claflin
Victoria California Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin
First
Seemed
Like
Planet
Planets
Saws
Sleep
Death
Light
Rudely
Firsts
Awakened
More quotes by Victoria Woodhull
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull
While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
Victoria Woodhull
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.
Victoria Woodhull
Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
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
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria Woodhull
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Victoria Woodhull
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Victoria Woodhull
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
Victoria Woodhull
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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
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.
Victoria Woodhull
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
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.
Victoria Woodhull
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Victoria Woodhull