Hortense Odlum Quotes


"No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance."
- Hortense Odlum
(Related: Life, Importance)

"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."
- Hortense Odlum
(Related: Men, Women, Work, Day, Jobs, Joy, Reward)

"It is not serving, but servility, that is menial."
- Hortense Odlum
"If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance."
- Hortense Odlum
(Related: Determination, Dignity, Importance, Job)

"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!"
- Hortense Odlum
(Related: Death, Life, Husbands, Reality, Strangers, Wives)