“Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one who could coax sugar from a lemon. Hers was the frontal attack with no inhibitions. She told the Nazis you could not trust Hitler, and they let her go. In the days of chaperones, she hitch-hiked a ride on a French destroyer along the coast of Crete; 'All quite proper, I had my cook with me,' she explained.” FranceSelf DeterminationSelf PreservationNazisVictorian EraWomen S HistoryArchaeologistsCreteHarriet Boyd Hawes Author:Mary Allsebrook
“No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.” PrecociousArchaeologistsSingle WomanHarriet Boyd HawesPrecociousness Book:Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes Source: Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes