Victoria Woodhull Quotes

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

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?

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

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet the remain the fetus... I hold abortion to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.

I'd rather be free in Hell than in chains in America."--Victoria Woodhull in The Renegade Queen

Victoria Woodhull was a free love and reproductive rights advocate who once made her living as a psychic and Spiritualist medium. In 1872 she also became the first woman to run for president of the United States, running on a ticket that included abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass as her vice president. A sex worker and equal opportunity slut, Woodhull is said to have saucily proclaimed: “I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously. 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.” Her legacy is carried on today by the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, which works to “affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right.

Victoria Woodhull and her sister were the 1870s equivalent of the Kardashian sisters.

The victory of the industrialized North over the agrarian South placed immense power in the hands of captains of finance and industry such as Vanderbilt, Belmont, Gould, and Morgan, builders of railroad and banking empires. Victoria Woodhull, flamboyant medium and woman’s rights advocate, made her reputation by offering astute stock tips to Vanderbilt, providing him with the sort of practical suggestions that spirits in the past had steadfastly abjured. The spirits of deceased financiers became increasingly popular at other mediums’ seances, ready to dispense financial advice.

The New York press mercilessly mocked Tilton’s screed. The World headlined its tirade “The Queen of Quacks” and Tilton’s words “hideous rubbish.” Harper’s Weekly hooted: “If apples are wormy this year, and grapes mildew, and duck’s eggs addle… it may all be ascribed to the unhallowed influence of Mr. Tilton’s Life of Victoria Woodhull.

Grant, in his message, has remembered all classes and conditions of men to Congress,

in Woodhull’s home state of Ohio, he came from the American heartland. The electorate had endowed him with an authenticity to which Woodhull could respond. She had paved her way to the White House

the feminist Victoria Woodhull, who stated, “A woman’s ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.” Mollie knew those words were