Frances Willard (1839–98,) fully Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, was an American temperance campaigner.
Born in Churchville, New York, she studied at the Northwestern Female College, Evanston, Illinois, and became an aesthetics professor. In 1879, she became president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, an organizer of the Prohibition Party in 1882. During her lifetime, Willard succeeded in advancing the age of consent in many states and passing labor reforms, including the eight-hour workday.
Willard edited the Chicago Daily Post. She helped to found and was the president of the National Council of Women (1890.)
Willard wrote Woman and Temperance (1883.)
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
—Frances Willard
Topics: Moderation
No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.
—Frances Willard
Topics: Learning
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
—Frances Willard
Topics: Progress
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
—Frances Willard
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