Victoria Woodhull Quotes

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.

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.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

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.

Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.

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

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.

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?

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

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.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Women have no government.

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.