6 Quotes & Sayings By Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Woodhull was an American businesswoman, editor, and political activist. She became the first woman to run for President of the United States from a nationally recognized political party. Victoria Woodhull is considered one of the first feminists. She made her most important contributions as a journalist and public advocate for women's rights Read more

In her day, she was a strong voice for women's rights and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. Woodhull was born in 1838 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were abolitionists who were active in the Underground Railroad movement.

Her father, Samuel Woodhull, was a physician who eventually became city physician for Cleveland and mayor of Cleveland from 1855 to 1856. Her mother, Eliza Woodhull, was active in antislavery activities as well as the women's rights movement.

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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. Victoria Woodhull
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Victoria Woodhull
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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. Victoria Woodhull
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. Victoria Woodhull
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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