About Hortense Odlum: Hortense McQuarrie Odlum was the first woman president of Bonwit Teller Department Store in New York City and the wife of financier Floyd 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.
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!
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.
It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
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.
