The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

- Frances E. Willard

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

- Frances E. Willard

If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to …

- Frances E. Willard

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

- Frances E. Willard

Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn;…

- Frances E. Willard

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

- Frances E. Willard

Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone wait…

- Frances E. Willard

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of sy…

- Frances E. Willard

The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about th…

- Frances E. Willard