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as quoted in Angel of the Battlefield by Ishbel Ross (1956)as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5 by Ida Husted Harper (1922)The Story of My Childhood (1907)

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It is too late—the world is too dark for any thought ahead. Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

Clara Barton

Clara Barton (1821–1912), U.S. nurse and founder of the Red Cross. As quoted in Angel of the Battlefield, ch. 20, by Ishbel Ross (1956).

On being asked in 1904, upon her resignation as President of the American Red Cross, to write her autobiography.

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