Victoria Woodhull

“My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.”

“Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.”

“For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.”

“When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.”

“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?”

“I endeavor to make the most of everything.”

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

“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.”