Frances Willard

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839 to 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. She fought for free school lunches, an eight-hour work day, and to protect children from abuse. Here are a few quotes attributed to her: “Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.” “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.” “The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” And my personal favorite: “In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”