Hortense Odlum Quotes


A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.


Citations

Odlum, Hortense. A Woman's Place: The Autobiography of Hortense Odlum. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.

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  • Died: January 12, 1970
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Businesswoman

Hortense McQuarrie Odlum was the first woman president of Bonwit Teller Department Store in New York City and the first wife of financier Floyd Odlum.