Clara Cahill Park

Clara Cahill Park (July 2, 1868 – October 28, 1951) was an American writer, artist, and social reformer, especially interested in the movement for public pensions for widows with children, as vice-president of the Massachusetts Congress of Mothers.

Quotes

• It's perfectly useless to ask people why they get married, but I fancy I know the reason, just the same. They may think it is one reason or another, but the real reason, to my mind, is an old one: The Eternal Purpose is making use of them to carry on the business of the world.
  • Clara Cahill Park, "To Carry on the Race", in "What is the Essential Purpose of Marriage?" Boston Globe (28 April 1912): 46.

• Long ago, when the world was young for many of us, we believed in marriage as a great adventure, and if the world has been kind to us and has spared us our ideals, it is still the great adventure upon which some of us have embarked, while others still linger on the shore.
  • Clara Cahill Park, "To Carry on the Race", in "What is the Essential Purpose of Marriage?" Boston Globe (28 April 1912): 46.

• Who honestly believes that he or she is extravagant? Not one, believe me. We all have our little ways of saving string, of doing without something, from early strawberries to diamond tiaras, which lead us to believe we are in the saving class.
  • Clara Cahill Park, "Women Learn to Save", in "Are Men or Women the Greater Spendthrifts?", Boston Globe (21 July 1912): 40.

Quotes about Clara Cahill Park

• Many able women in early middle life, having mastered the art of home-making in the finest school in the world--a busy and happy household--seek a wider sort of home-making. They have a vision of the city they know best, or the State or the nation, as a greater household, to be organized and made happier through the influence of a larger motherhood. It was so with Mrs. Park.
  • Ray Stannard Baker (March 1913). "Mrs. Clara Cahill Park" The American Magazine 75(5): 33.