Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martinwas an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth23 September 1838
CountryUnited States of America
women government
Women have no government.
succeed miserable woman-suffrage
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
women common citizenship
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
hands shakes standpoint
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
reform citizens jurisprudence
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.
want places-to-go faces
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
sex pursuit-of-happiness liberty
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
voice rights government
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
equality government use
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
sex government voice
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
ideas entrepreneur support
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.
bears advocating curse
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
lust world disease
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.
husband blood house
One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.