Mary Pilon Quotes
Before she made her bid for the U.S. presidency in 1872, Victoria Woodhull worked as one of the first female stockbrokers in the country, starting a firm, Woodhull, Claflin & Company, with her sister in 1870.
Pilon, Mary. "Victoria Woodhull's Presidential Run." Vice, Vice Media, 2016.
She was answering the question of what has to happen for America to have a female president.
It would be over 30 years more before American women could vote for President. Lockwood never could.
She was running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Mary Pilon is an American journalist who primarily writes about sports and business. A regular contributor to the New Yorker and Bloomberg Businessweek, her books are The Monopolists (2015) and The Kevin Show (2018). The former is being developed into a feature film. She has also worked as a staff reporter covering sports for The New York Times and has also written for Vice, Esquire, NBC News, among other outlets.