Clara Quotes

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.

What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

I founded the American Red Cross.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Let me go, let me go.

Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

Every season can be allergy season, depending on what you're allergic to.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

All the physical comes from the mental.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.