The Victoria Woodhull Reader
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“To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.”
Source: A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom
Source: A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom
“The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.”
Source: A Speech on the Great Social Problem of Labor & Capital Delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City ... May 8, 1871, Before the Labor Reform League
“Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.”
Source: A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom
Source: A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom
“I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.”
“I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.”
Source: The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
“I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.”
“I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.”
“Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.”
“So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.”
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
“For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.”
“The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.”
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
Source: A Speech on the Impending Revolution
“The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.”
“All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.”
“My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.”
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
“I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.”