Victoria Woodhull

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

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

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.

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

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.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

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

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

The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .