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 WoodhullI offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
Victoria WoodhullI come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Victoria WoodhullI now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Victoria WoodhullI ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria WoodhullA 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