Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fig...ht for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive socie...ty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
(1) Do not cry. No matter what. (2) Use your appearance to create an image of strength. (3) Develop staying power. (4) Specialize.... (5) Don't wear your sex like a badge on your sleeve. (6) Put in more time than anyone else. (7) Be loyal. (8) Be a team player. (9) Never use your family as an excuse. (10) Learn how to be a manager. (11) Network.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you've ever been without money, or food, something very strange happens when you get a bit of money, a kind of madness. You don...'t care. You can't remember that you had no money before, that the money will be gone. You can remember nothing but that there is the money for which you have been suffering. Now here it is. A lust takes hold of you. You see food in the windows. In imagination you eat hugely; you taste a thousand meals. You look in windows. Colors are brighter; you buy something to dress up in. An excitement takes hold of you. You know it is suicide but you can't help it. You must have food, dainty, splendid food and a bright hat so once again you feel blithe, rid of that ratty gnawing shame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by any...thing. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
MY DEAR FRIEND,--I believe a good many conversations with you were left in an unfinished state, and now indeed I don't know where ...to take them up. But I will resume some of the unfinished silence. I shall not hesitate to know you. I think of you as some elder sister of mine, whom I could not have avoided,--a sort of lunar influence,--only of such age as the moon, whose time is measured by her light. You must know that you represent to me woman, for I have not traveled very far or wide,--and what if I had?... You have helped to keep my life "on loft," as Chaucer says of Griselda, and in a better sense. You always seemed to look down on me as from some elevation,--some of your high humilities,--and I was the better for having to look up. I felt taxed not to disappoint your expectation; for could there be any accident so sad as to be respected for something better than we are? It was a pleasure even to go away from you, as it is not to meet some, as it apprised me of my high relations; and such a departure is a sort of further introduction and meeting. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all th...e papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, I am chiefly interested in the renomination, so don't get disconsolate over that. If we lost the election I shall feel that ...the party is rejected, whereas if I fail to secure the renomination it will be a personal defeat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the so...ldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »