83 Quotes by Victoria Woodhull

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.

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

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...

All talk of women’s rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good...

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven’s choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God’s most holy institution of sexual relations.

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