Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
“The opacity of the mind, its inability to project itself into the realm of another's personality, goes a long way to explain the friction… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
“Another writer argued in an 1895 issue of the Cosmopolitan that by riding a bicycle, a woman would "become mistress of herself," transformed into… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
“We contended that whatever diminishes the sense of superiority in men makes them more manly, brotherly, and pleasant to have about; we felt sure… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel. — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
“That which caused the many failures I had in learning the bicycle had caused me failures in life; namely, a certain fearful looking for… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
“In 1895, Ann Strong declared in the Minneapolis Tribune that bicycles were "just as good company as most husbands" and that when a bicycle… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
![““The opacity of the mind, its inability to project itself into the realm of another's personality, goes a long way to explain the friction of life. If we would set down other people's errors to this rather than to malice prepense we should not only get more good out of life and feel more kindly toward our fellows, but doubtless the rectitude of our intellects would increase, and the justice of our judgments...we are so shut away from one another that none tells those about him what he considers ideal treatment on their part toward him...nothing will probe to the core of this greatest disadvantage under which we labor--that is, mutual noncomprehension--except a basis of society and government which would make it easy for each to put himself in another's place because his place is so much like another's...we [would] need less imagination in order to do that which is just and kind to every one about us.”” quote by Frances E. Willard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e5/frances-e-willard-25037_compassion_the-opacity-of-the-mind-its-inability-to_680656.jpg)
