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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.

Hortense Odlum

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Hortense Odlum
Age: 88 †
Born: 1881
Born: July 1
Died: 1970
Died: January 12
Businessperson
Hortense McQuarrie Odlum
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