Hortense Odlum
Hortense Odlum
Hortense McQuarrie Odlumwas the first woman president of Bonwit Teller Department Store in New York City and the wife of financier Floyd Odlum...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
Hortense Odlum quotes about
husband reality wife
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!
cosmic life properly realized
No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.
It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
disappointment frustration interesting
Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.
adventure want ready
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.
fun adventure thinking
Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at somethingand much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, '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.
importance cosmic ifs
No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.
determination jobs giving
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.
jobs men eight
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.
satisfaction wells one-thing
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
integrity climbing patterns
With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in which we can make our individual lives fit into the pattern of all the lives which surround it. We must establish our own relationships to the whole. And each must do it in his own way, using his own talents, relying on his own integrity and strength, climbing his own road to his own summit.
mother careers wife
... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.
mother responsibility wife
Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.
believe people judging
Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain andrestless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn't matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.