Frances Willard quotes
Frances Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffrage leader. One of the most influential women of her era, she served as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She championed social reforms and worked tirelessly for women’s rights throughout her life. Here are 6 of her quotes:
A girl of seven or ten years old is held to be the equal partner in a crime where another and a stronger is the principal; because she is in so many ways hampered and harmed by laws and customs pertaining to the past, we reach out hands of help especially to her that she may overtake the swift-marching procession of progress, for its sake that it may not slacken its speed on her account as much as for hers that she be not left behind.
I brought to the last Council our petition to Congress for the protection of women, which was responded to by raising the age of consent from .......... to sixteen years.
Frances Willard
Frances Willard
Occupation: American Activist
Born: September 28, 1839
Died: February 17, 1898
Quotes count: 6
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