“I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFeelsMeanLongWholeSexRecordsEventsJudgingOughtDevilRelationBusyFinishedSexismJudgedRight WayInactionArabianSmall ChangesMemorandum Author:Gertrude Bell
“We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.” WayKindStatesMomentsHandsRunningDoubtAuthorityDevilDifficultyFinalsSpiteOver ItOutsidersGet OverInferiorityDifferentiateGetting Over It Author:Gertrude Bell
