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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
— Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull
stockbroker, suffragist, editor, politician, journalist, women's rights activist, writer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1838 – 1927
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
All Quotes by Victoria Woodhull
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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
— Victoria Woodhull
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
— Victoria Woodhull
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
— 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
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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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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
— 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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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
— Victoria Woodhull
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
— Victoria Woodhull
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
— Victoria Woodhull