She meditated on Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health every day, using it as her “medicine” for discontent. “She never complained,” Clarice stated. “She reacted to adversity by refusing to dwell on it and by taking immediate positive action.” Her motto was “Make yourself the best in the field and you will reach the top. That’s why I’m spending my last penny on lessons.” She told Clarice, “If one hundred percent of the movie bigshots in Hollywood told me I couldn’t make it to the top, I wouldn’t believe them.”