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Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was an American social reformer, theosophist, and the first woman to run for President of the United States on a major party ticket. She was a prominent figure in the women's suffrage movement and the labor movement.

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Famous Victoria Woodhull Quotes

“To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.”

Men Mean Behinds Doors Opposition Halls Unfair Cowardly

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.”

Men Should Reason Score Prostitution

Book:A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom

Source: A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom

“I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.”

Men Believe I Believe Holy Highest Relation Institutions I Believe In Cures Damnation Spiritualism Free Love

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“If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.”

Ifs Men Would Be Today Women He Man Demand Feminist Grants Compelled Emancipation

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“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.”

Men Would Be Women Issues Week Victory Independence Feminist Refuse Declaration Sexually Declaration Of Independence

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.”

Men Want Should Humans Children Country Human Beings Cities Millions Streets Land Cold Seeking Hungry Our Country Wander Plenty Highways Men Women Being Me Ragged

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“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.”

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“Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.”

Men Ability Vote Protection Tyranny Brutality

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“Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?”

Men Fairs Treats

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“Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.”

Men Life Occupation

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“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.”

Men Needs Whole Government Loses Too Much Husband Property

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!”

Men Law Lying Girl Term Poor Streets Divine Duty Election Sells Divorce Penalties Ceremony Compensation Moses Adrift Perfidy

Author:Victoria Woodhull