Quotes from Hortense Odlum

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.

Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.