"I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it." ― Victoria Woodhull Topic(s): Change More From Victoria Woodhull "I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." "I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable." "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." More In Change "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."― C. S. Lewis "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "I know that my race must change."― Chief Joseph