Victoria Woodhull
You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.Collection: Country
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.Collection: Criticism
I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.Collection: Enemy
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.Collection: Onward And Upward
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.Collection: Children
It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?Collection: Would Be
Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.Collection: Love Is
there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.Collection: Men
I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.Collection: Perfection
One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.Collection: Husband
I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.Collection: Children
The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.Collection: Children
No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!Collection: Girl
I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.Collection: Wish
I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.Collection: Sacrifice
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.Collection: Practice
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.Collection: Inspiration
There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.Collection: Sex
I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.Collection: Lust
Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.Collection: Political
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.Collection: Matter
I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.Collection: Husband
I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.Collection: Husband