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 More Quotes by Victoria Woodhull More Quotes From Victoria Woodhull 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. Victoria Woodhull husband men needs I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please. Victoria Woodhull change may long 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 sister daughter mother 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 poverty country people The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. Victoria Woodhull sin essence exercise The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality. Victoria Woodhull equality women government I endeavor to make the most of everything. Victoria Woodhull endeavor women history 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. Victoria Woodhull christian love-you mean Women have every right; they just have to excercise them. Victoria Woodhull women 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 women government mother I 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 Woodhull sincerity trust criticism Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause. Victoria Woodhull taken law people While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it. Victoria Woodhull good-times time I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. Victoria Woodhull assuming management desire Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. Victoria Woodhull woman-suffrage miserable succeed 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. Victoria Woodhull rights mother children Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote. Victoria Woodhull vote brutality men 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. Victoria Woodhull women issues feminist 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 voice government sex All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them. Victoria Woodhull moonshine rights exercise
