If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

Olaf by the Norwegian government. Brenda Ueland (October 24 1891 - March 5 1985) was a journalist editor freelance writer and teacher of writing. She went on to marry two more times first to Manus McFadden the editor of the Minneapolis Times then to Sverre Hanssen a Norwegian artist.

She is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art Independence and Spirit.