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

- Victoria Woodhull

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

- Victoria Woodhull

Women have no government.

- Victoria Woodhull

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

- Victoria Woodhull

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

- Victoria Woodhull

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

- Victoria Woodhull

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

- Victoria Woodhull

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

- Victoria Woodhull

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

- Victoria Woodhull

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

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

- Victoria Woodhull

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

- Victoria Woodhull

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

- Victoria Woodhull

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

- Victoria Woodhull

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

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

- Victoria Woodhull

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

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

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

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

- Victoria Woodhull