A Quote by Marge Piercy
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.
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I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
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