The Sisterhood Quotes

“You can protect it all, but if you turn around and look back and what you see is no longer America, then what is it for.”
― Liza Mundy, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

“It is hard to understand why the senators were so perplexed, given that behavior like this had been an open secret in Washington for as long as Washington existed.”
― Liza Mundy, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

“Contrary to popular belief, female spies throughout history have traded not on their sexuality, but on their perceived insignificance.”
― Liza Mundy, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

“Some of the women in attendance later reminisced about Page during a lively 1992 question-and-answer session, a transcript of which (with last names redacted) was declassified in 2013.”
― Liza Mundy, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

“Hall became one of the SOE’s most tenacious spymasters, building a network of agents in Lyon, France. Pursued by the Gestapo, she hiked over the Pyrenees despite the impediment of a wooden leg she’d named Cuthbert. When she radioed back to SOE headquarters in London that Cuthbert was giving her trouble, the recipient, unaware she had blown one foot off in a prewar hunting accident and used a prosthesis, thought Cuthbert was a male companion. “Have him eliminated,” came the radio reply. —”
― Liza Mundy, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA