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 More Quotes by Victoria Woodhull More Quotes From 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 inspiration soul heaven Women have no government. Victoria Woodhull women government 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. Victoria Woodhull ignorant understanding sex I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint. Victoria Woodhull standpoint shakes hands When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. Victoria Woodhull broken-promises broken-heart children To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. Victoria Woodhull doors men mean I 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 Woodhull disease lust world I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits. Victoria Woodhull suits chance matter Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use. Victoria Woodhull political use matter I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection. Victoria Woodhull purity perfection heaven I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation. Victoria Woodhull wife husband perfect I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination. Victoria Woodhull husband angel impossible My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. Victoria Woodhull opinions myself criticism principles