Victoria Woodhull

Activist

1838-09-23

Quotes by 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.

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

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• Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

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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.

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

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