“How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.” StatesFatherPresidentUnitedUnited StatesWalkingTreatsVicesRudeHelloVice PresidentEleanorSaying Hello Author:Eleanor Mondale
“Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.” IfsWritingStillsNationsUnitedImpossibleSeaTreatsEnglandTradeConnectedBritishPeacefulDividesUnited NationsNavalIsleNear And Far Author:Nicholas Rodger
“One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.” ThinkingWayIdeasStatesCertainUnitedUnited StatesTroubleTreatsOneselfExperts Author:Marge Piercy