"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled."

Experience

Create & Download Quote Graphic

Customize Image

1. Canvas Aspect Ratio

2. Palette Theme

Thematic Reflection

This quotation examines the core nature of Experience as articulated by Jane Addams. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Experience provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

Explore all Experience quotes → Browse all wisdom by Jane Addams →

About Jane Addams

Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage. In 1889, Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. Philosophically a "radical pragmatist", she was arguably the first woman public philosopher in the United States. In the Progressive Era, when even presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and might be seen as social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers.

View all quotes by Jane Addams →
Editorial Integrity: Curated and fact-checked under our Editorial Standards to eliminate misattributions and preserve historical authenticity.
Learn about our methodology →

More by Jane Addams

"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."

— Jane Addams
Read more →

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."

— Jane Addams
Read more →

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."

— Jane Addams
Read more →

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."

— Jane Addams
Read more →

More about Experience

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

— Desiderius Erasmus
Read more →

"I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that."

— Busta Rhymes
Read more →

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

— Ambrose Bierce
Read more →

"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."

— John Fahey
Read more →
Browse all Experience quotes →