Clara Barton
Clara Barton
Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Bartonwas a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home. She had a relationship with John J. Elwell, but never married...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth25 December 1821
CityOxford, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
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.
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 went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.
Let me go, let me go.