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Victoria Woodhull [1838-1927] American

Rank: 101
Activist, Author

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement.
In 1872, Woodhull ran for President of the United States.

Happiness, Women, Change, Dreams, Future, Government, Independence, Society, Trust

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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.		101
While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.		102
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.	Women	103
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.		104
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?	Future, Government, Women	105
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.	Change	106
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.	Dreams, Society	107
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.		108
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.		109
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.	Independence	110
I endeavor to make the most of everything.		111
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.	Happiness	112
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.		113
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.	Trust	114
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.	Happiness	115
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.		116
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.		117
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?		118
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?		119
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.		120
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.		121
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.		122
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.		123
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.		124
Women have no government.		125
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.		126
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.		201
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.		202

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