Breaking Boundaries

"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past."

       -Clara Barton

- she transformed the education system

"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."

      - Clara Barton

Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (center). Left to right: B.F. Tillinghast, Admiral N. Kaznakoff. Photographed in St. Petersburg, Russia, during the seventh International Red Cross Conference in June 1902.

- she was one of the first women to hold employment in the federal Goverment.