“Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.”

— William Carlos Williams

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American poet 1883–1963

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True origin unknown. Finest Hour described it as "not verifiable in any of the 50 million published words by and about him" ( Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston Churchill, Number 145, Winter 2009–10, p. 9 https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/vol.01%20no.145.pdf). A similar quotation: "If you're going through hell, don't stop!" is "plausibly attributed" to Oregon self-help author and counselor Douglas Bloch (1990), according to Quote Investigator.
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Variant: If you're going through hell, keep going
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going/