Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Victoria Woodhull (American Social Reformer)

Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927,) née Claflin, was an American social reformer. She campaigned for such assorted causes as woman suffrage, free love, legal prostitution, mystical socialism, and the Greenback movement. She was also the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency (1872.)

Born in Homer, Ohio, Woodhull traveled in a family-medicine and fortune-telling show, offering psychic and other public remedies. She performed a spiritualist act with her sister, Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923.) From 1853–64, Victoria was married to Dr. Canning Woodhull, but she returned to the family business upon her divorce.

In 1868, Woodhull went with Tennessee to New York, where they persuaded the industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt to set them up as stockbrokers. They became involved with a socialist group called Pantarchy. They began to advocate for free love, equal rights, and legal prostitution. Woodhull expounded these ideas in a series of articles in the New York Herald in 1870 collected in Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government (1871.)

In 1870, the Claflin susters established the women’s rights and reform magazine Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly (1870–76.) Woodhull was a vigorous speaker; she won support from the women’s suffrage movement’s leaders and thus became the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency (1872.) In 1877, she moved to London, with Tennessee, where they continued to lecture and write.

Woodhull’s publications include Stirpiculture, or the Scientific Propagation of the Human Race (1888,) Garden of Eden: Allegorical Meaning Revealed (1889,) and The Human Body the Temple of God (1890, with Tennessee.)

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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.
Victoria Woodhull
Topics: Criticism

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